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- [ri-kroot]
- /rɪˈkrut/
- /rɪˈkruːt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ri-kroot]
- /rɪˈkrut/
Definitions of recruit word
- noun recruit a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces. 1
- noun recruit a new member of a group, organization, or the like. 1
- noun recruit a fresh supply of something. 1
- verb with object recruit to enlist (a person) for service in one of the armed forces. 1
- verb with object recruit to raise (a force) by enlistment. 1
- verb with object recruit to strengthen or supply (an armed force) with new members. 1
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Origin of recruit
First appearance:
before 1635 One of the 43% oldest English words
1635-45; < French, stem of recruter, derivative of recrue new growth, noun use of feminine past participle of recroître (re- re- + croître < Latin crēscere to grow; cf. crescent)
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Parts of speech for Recruit
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recruit popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
recruit usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for recruit
noun recruit
- amateur — An amateur is someone who does something as a hobby and not as a job.
- beginner — A beginner is someone who has just started learning to do something and cannot do it very well yet.
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- cadet — A cadet is a young man or woman who is being trained in the armed services or the police.
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
verb recruit
- call up — If you call someone up, you telephone them.
- catch up — If you catch up with someone who is in front of you, you reach them by walking faster than they are walking.
- congressed — (initial capital letter) the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution. this body as it exists for a period of two years during which it has the same membership: the Ninety-Seventh Congress. a session of this body: to speak in Congress.
- congressing — (initial capital letter) the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution. this body as it exists for a period of two years during which it has the same membership: the Ninety-Seventh Congress. a session of this body: to speak in Congress.
- conscribe — to conscript
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