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recruitment

recruitment

77 3.0
To find and invite people to join an organization, like a company or the army
  • noun
  • /rɪˈkruːtmənt/
: reclutamiento
  • We have huge recruitment crises in all the caring professions.
  • recruitment and retention
  • recruitment efforts
  • recruitment campaign

And cults frankly count on debasement as a recruitment and retention tool.

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Examples

  • The third objective would be to aid in the recruitment of new employees.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Looks like he just walked out of a recruitment center.

  • Hey, um, you going down to the recruitment office next week?

  • There are public health reasons for concern regarding military recruitment in public schools.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Probably the strongest, most successful, and most positive tool for recruitment is the chapter meeting.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Because recruitment at Shadow Force came with one single ironclad rule.

  • The five elements are student services, academic services, curriculum and instruction, recruitment and admissions, and financial aid.

    Academic text (2011)
  • They were quite influential and they were involved heavily in business and recruitment of employees.

  • Given the current labor market, it isn't surprising that recruitment has become HR's No. 1 challenge.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The U.S. Army is expected to fall short of the recruitment targets again in March and April.

Synonyms

enlistment
vsrecruitment
13 4.4

Signing up to join the armed forces

is the full process of finding and signing people, not only a single enrollment
enlisting
vsrecruitment
1 4.2

Getting people to join a group, a cause, or the army

is the wider process that also includes finding and organizing new members

Antonyms

102 2.6

An event when a company ends someone's job because of money problems, not because they did a bad job

1 7.5

Breaking up an organized group like a band or army

How Extensive

recruitment
77 3.0
headhunting
1 4.0

Surface Forms

recruitment singular
recruitments plural

Morphology

recruitment = recruit (transparent) = recruit + ment

Standard nominalization of the verb 'recruit' with '-ment' yielding the process or result, which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

Recruitment comes from the parts re- ('again') and crescere ('to grow'), the same root you see in increase. So, recruitment is the process of helping a group 'grow' by finding new people.