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recruitment

recruitment

70 3.0
To find and invite people to join an organization, like a company or the army
  • noun
  • /rɪˈkruːtmənt/
translation icon : 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
7 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

145 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
70 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.