recruiter

American  

[ri-kroo-ter] / rɪˈkru tər /

noun

• recruiters
  plural

1. someone who engages in finding, attracting, or enlisting employees, new members, students, athletes, etc..

   For all his failings as a head football coach, his predecessor had been an excellent recruiter, and many of his players were potential stars.

   If you are underage, a military recruiter will require your parents' permission before you can enlist.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• recruiters
  plural

Etymology

Origin of recruiter

recruit ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

Explanation

A recruiter is someone whose job involves signing people up as members or hiring them for jobs. Sometimes company recruiters visit college campuses to talk to interested students. A recruiter for a large company might place advertisements for job openings and interview applicants, while a military recruiter works at an office where interested enlistees can sign up to join the armed services. If you work as a recruiter for your school's French club, it's your job to make the club look exciting and fun, and to sign up new members. The origin of recruiter can be traced back to the Latin crescere, "to grow."

Example Sentences

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recruiter recruiters

"Don't waltz into your interview all casual with an iced coffee, it just looks like you didn't have time to finish your coffee beforehand," said US recruiter Caitlin Wehniainen.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

“If you can’t go without a coffee drink for an hour, there’s a problem,” the Culver City, Calif., recruiter continued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Kinney, the recruiter, said Aiello’s presence made it hard to hire new partners for Weil’s Texas office, a major initiative for the firm, after prospects cited concerns about working in his shadow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Meanwhile, 75% of the 1,881 UK jobseekers polled in July by recruiter Gi Group say they would not be put off applying to an organisation that had introduced AI proficiency into individual performance reviews.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The recruiter was sitting on his folding chair, but he had to keep both hands on his pamphlets to keep them from scattering.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The updates include better memory and advanced reasoning skills to help make sense of what recruiters are looking for in a given candidate search.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the past, recruiters often would just look over a sampling of applications rather than the entire group when the volume of applications grew too high, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The average foreigner targeted by recruiters working for Russia is under 40, living in a poorer country and lured by the "promise of a job", she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Five months into his job search, Tyler Stahl hasn’t contacted any recruiters, but they sure have contacted him — or people who claim to be recruiters.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

A perfect time to nab me before other recruiters do.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

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