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.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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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Example Sentences
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He has recently approved the recruitment of 28,000 new soldiers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Flores worked in a recruitment division, which handles job applications from aspiring officers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Over the past several years, Russia has compiled a database of all men of military age eligible to serve, and has started alerting those who have to appear at the recruitment office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
In real life, virtual recruitment is the hiring norm, people are dressing more casually, posting about their jobs on TikTok and prioritizing work-life balance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ned stole a glance at the army recruitment stand.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
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
Georgia has had a number of failed auto plant recruitments.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
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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