recruitment

American  

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /

noun

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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Etymology

Origin of recruitment

First recorded in 1815–25; recruit + -ment

Example Sentences

With exam season fast approaching, students and their families accepted that future generations, rather than the current cohort, would be most likely to benefit from permanent staff recruitment.

From BBC

He advised students in liberal arts to major in law, accounting, or Chinese literature, reasoning that these fields most commonly led to recruitment after civil service exams.

From BBC

"We wanted to make this announcement to enable the recruitment process to start and before the EGM is held so everyone goes into the EGM process with the benefit of the same knowledge."

From BBC

This will actually necessitate hiring more teachers, and the government put aside £40m for recruitment next year.

From BBC

He redoubled his wooing of individual researchers and invited Yann LeCun, the deep learning pioneer based at New York University, over for another recruitment dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• business
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• hiring
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