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recruiting

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re·cruit  (r-krt)
v. re·cruit·ed, re·cruit·ing, re·cruits
v.tr.
1. To engage (persons) for military service.
2. To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.
3. To supply with new members or employees.
4. To enroll or seek to enroll: colleges recruiting minority students.
5. To replenish.
6. To renew or restore the health, vitality, or intensity of.
v.intr.
1. To raise a military force.
2. To obtain replacements for or new supplies of something lost, wasted, or needed.
3. To regain lost health or strength; recover.
n.
1. A newly engaged member of a military force, especially one of the lowest rank or grade.
2. A new member of an organization or body.

[French recruter, from obsolete recrute, recruit, variant of recrue, from feminine past participle of recroître, to grow again, from Old French recroistre : re-, re- + croistre, to grow (from Latin crscere; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots).]

re·cruiter n.
re·cruitment n.
Translations
recruiting [rɪˈkruːtɪŋ]
A. Nreclutamiento m
B. CPD recruiting office Ncaja f de reclutas
recruiting officer Noficial mf de reclutamiento
recruiting
n (of soldiers)Rekrutierung f; (of members)Werben nt; (of staff)Einstellung f; recruiting office (Mil) → Rekrutierungsbüro nt; recruiting officerAushebungsoffizier m, → Werbeoffizier m (Hist)


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"The Recruiting Sergeant" has the touch of grim desolation, which belongs inevitably to a country plundered of its men and swept with the ruinous winds of rebellion.
From Cockspur Street to Nelson's Monument the men were lined up in a long queue, making their way to the recruiting office.
During the Civil War he as- sisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves.
 
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