recruitableadj.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 7 Their empty & unrecrutible [1720 Poems unrecruitible] Colonells of twenty men in a company.]

1739 Citizen 16 Mar. in Sir W. Keith Coll. Papers & Other Tracts (1749) 27 Her Armies are recruitable, to a Degree beyond Measure or End; for she assumes into that Service dependent Nations, of inexhaustible Tartary.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Sept. 3/3 A large highly-trained naval reserve, alone chiefly recruitable from our fisherfolks.

1941 S. Horn Army of Tennessee xix. 406 The Confederacy had been bled of its recruitable material, and most of the armies in the field were so hard pressed that there was no possibility of borrowing from one to bolster the other.

1973 Cellular Immunol. 8 401 Inability to transfer DH [= delayed hypersensitivity] with thymocytes could be due to insufficient numbers of competent cells transferred or to absence of the recruitable cell population required to cooperate with the thymus-derived cells to express DH.

1998 Muscle News No. 33. 23/4 Increased activation of agonists could take the form of recruitment of high threshold units not previously recruitable, or increased tiring rates of units, both of which are adaptive processes.

2005 R. Stevenson Swift Passage of Time 136 Younger scientists..are designated as being ‘temporary’ and hence ‘recruitable’ without penalty.