recruit
noun
a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
unrecruited
-
a word derived from
recruit.
Example Sentences
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He was undersized and largely unrecruited out of Davis High in Yakima, Wash., where basketball was traditionally a bigger deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2025
He went to Tuscaloosa in 1989 unrecruited but determined.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2020
There are about 20 unrecruited “walk-on” athletes per class, the report found, but they usually don’t get much playing time and often drop the sport after their first year.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2019
“It was a combination of things,” Dumas says now, when asked to explain why Kupp went so unrecruited out of high school.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2016
The Chinese garrison, ill-paid and unrecruited, gradually lost the semblance of a military force, and was not to be distinguished from the rest of the civil population.
From China by Demetrius Charles Boulger
