recruitment

American  

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /

noun

• recruitments
  plural

1. the act or process of recruiting.

2. 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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• recruitments
  plural

Etymology

Origin of recruitment

First recorded in 1815–25; recruit + -ment

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.

Example Sentences

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The second fund’s portfolio companies include KMS, a distributor of clearance consumer goods, and Klein Hersh, a healthcare-focused recruitment firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

As a result, he has paused recruitment for new jobs while investing in more robotic assembly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The review points to recent evidence showing that recruitment of B cells can encourage macrophages to adopt M2 states, helping reduce excessive inflammation as healing progresses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

As well as reminding its existing employees of the principles of compassionate care, the trust has embedded a question about it into its recruitment processes.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

He shared my deteimination that we should apply Mr. Muhammad’s formula in a recruitment drive.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

“When I got there, I saw banners advertising recruitments for the army. By then, I had spent so much time and money that I decided to join anyway,” he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

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

But early on in their respective recruitments, both players had to fight the stigma associated with their lack of elite size.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2017

War-minister Narbonne, he of the rose-coloured Reports, solicits recruitments, equipments, money, always money; threatens, since he can get none,—to 'take his sword,' which belongs to himself, and go serve his country with that.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

Related Words

• business
• contracting
• enrollment
• hiring
• job
• service
• trade