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# recruit

verb (recruit, recruits, recruited, recruiting); noun (a recruit, recruits)

«recruit» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. verb To find and get new people to join a group, team, army or company. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#m1)
2. noun A new member, especially of the army or police. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#m2)
3. verb (informal) To get someone to help you: «I recruited my sister to help clean.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life clubs recruit new members; companies recruit workers. In history, armies recruited soldiers with posters. Phrases: «new recruits», «recruit volunteers», «recruitment».

### Examples

- The football club is recruiting new players. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#x1)
- The army recruits trained hard at camp. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#x2)
- I recruited my friends to help with the bake sale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#x3)
- The school wants to recruit more volunteers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#x4)
- She was recruited as a lifeguard for the summer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#x5)
- The new recruit was nervous on his first day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#x6)
- It was the colonel himself who came with the patrol, and he was not a little surprised when he found the recruit safe and sound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/#x7)

### Note

Spelling: re-cr-UI-t (the «ui» says «oo»). Noun for the process: «recruitment». Countable noun.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «recruit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recruit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«recruit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/recruit.html) on Mova free.