recruitment

[ ri-kroot-muhnt ]

/ rɪˈkrut mənt /

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noun

the act or process of recruiting.

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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Origin of recruitment

First recorded in 1815–25; recruit + -ment

Words nearby recruitment

recrudesce, recrudescence, recrudescent, recruit, recruiter, recruitment, recrystallize, Rec. Sec., rect-, recta, rectal

How to use recruitment in a sentence

In a Facebook post Friday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will launch a poll worker recruitment drive on the platform.
Facebook launches poll worker recruitment push in the News Feed|Taylor Hatmaker|September 11, 2020|TechCrunch
The company has also offered free advertising to state election authorities for the poll worker recruitment push and expects several states to be joining California in running those campaigns soon.
Facebook launches poll worker recruitment push in the News Feed|Taylor Hatmaker|September 11, 2020|TechCrunch
You may also be able to register at the local department of motor vehicles, a military recruitment center, or a public assistance office, but you’ll need to check with those locations first.
It’s time to check your voter registration—here’s how|John Kennedy|September 10, 2020|Popular-Science
In addition, that means a different way of doing recruitment, supporting career growth, or enabling social connections in a team.
How would an SEO agency be built today? Part 1: Consumers and trends|Sponsored Content: SEOmonitor|September 4, 2020|Search Engine Land

That could help recruitment for trials testing whether plasma therapy could be used as a prophylactic.
COVID-19 plasma treatments may be safe, but we don’t know if they work|Tina Hesman Saey|August 25, 2020|Science News
And really, recruitment is more of a European problem than an American one.
What the U.S. Can Learn from Europe About Dealing with Terrorists|Scott Beauchamp|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is the heart of the agent recruitment process that is the lifeblood of CIA today.
CIA Agents Assess: How Real Is ‘Homeland’?|Chuck Cogan, John MacGaffin|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As the recruitment process begins, the question of motivation could also prove to be a hurdle.
U.S. Hasn’t Even Started Training Rebel Army to Fight ISIS|Tim Mak|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Congress authorized the train-and-equip mission in mid-September, but two months later, recruitment has not even begun.
U.S. Hasn’t Even Started Training Rebel Army to Fight ISIS|Tim Mak|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Four, the recruitment by the Republicans of affable-seeming candidates who had some discipline drilled into them.
The Real Reason Democrats Lost|Michael Tomasky|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These schools will be exclusively intended for the recruitment of officers of each arm, in the proportion of one school per arm.
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII|Various
Nor is there any reason why the recruitment should be confined to persons of British domicile.
The Political Future of India|Lajpat Rai
The greatest mistake made in our civil war was in the mode of recruitment and promotion.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete|William T. Sherman
The German method of recruitment is simply perfect, and there is no good reason why we should not follow it substantially.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete|William T. Sherman
At last the hoped-for recruitment reached the enfeebled garrison of Quebec on September 22nd.
Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime|William Henry Atherton

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