recruitment
Americannoun
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recruitments
plural
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the act or process of recruiting.
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Physiology. an increase in the response to a stimulus owing to the activation of additional receptors, resulting from the continuous application of the stimulus with the same intensity.
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Etymology
Origin of recruitment
Explanation
Recruitment is the act of getting people to sign up for something, especially the military. If you've ever been recruited for something, then someone convinced you to do or join something. The person who convinced you was in the business of recruitment. Recruitment refers to everything people do to get others to join things, like the military. Colleges, sports teams, and businesses are all involved in recruitment when they are trying to attract new students, athletes, and employees. When recruitment is successful, people sign up and join.
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Meanwhile, others, like Brighton, have leaned into data and smart recruitment to help them close the gap.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
David Skorton, then-president of Cornell, vowed “to end pledging as we know it,” blaming fraternities’ and sororities’ recruitment process for perpetuating hazing rituals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Our recruitment strategy and philosophy has been something that we've built on over a long period of time now," sporting director Mike Cave told BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
"The presence of even a small fraction of these tetraploid cells can promote the recruitment of extra non-cancerous cells that support further tumor progression," Sweet said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
In fact, most of us never even got to wear one of those dress blue uniforms like that first one I saw on the Marine Corps recruitment poster.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
This year, the agency has offered extra pay to help entice retirement-eligible controllers to stay on, while raising wages for early-career employees and stepping up recruitments to the air-traffic-controller academy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
They are demanding that authorities resolve a number of issues, including the recruitments process and promotions.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
He built relationships by aiding players’ college recruitments — contacting coaches and driving players to colleges for camps and visits.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
Last year BBC Panorama exposed the organisation's recruitments efforts in the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2021
By detours, by circuitous effort and happy accident, your troops may occasionally squeeze through: but without one secure road open behind them for supplies and recruitments, what good is it?
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle
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