recruit

Signification

Noun

1. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
2. A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
3. A hired worker
4. A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.

Verb

1. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
2. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
3. To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
4. To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
5. To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
6. To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɹɪˈkɹut/

Étymologie

From French recruter (as a verb). Doublet of creature, crescent, croissant, crew, and recreation.