recruithoodn.
/rᵻˈkruːthʊd/, U.S. /rəˈkruthʊd/, /riˈkruthʊd/ rare.
The state of being a recruit; time spent as a recruit.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > recruit > state of being
recruitage1825
recruithood1884
recruitship1919
1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 108/2 Old soldiers who read this will remember their green recruithood and smile assent.
1913 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 7 572 The duties of the Medical Department in warfare are with the personnel..until..exit..by discharge, by invaliding on account of honorable scars of war or perchance by death. It watches over it in recruithood, counsels it in maturity, [etc.].
1965 H. R. W. Benjamin Sage of Petaluma xi. 105 I first met Cobb in 1914 when he was still a private, and I was just emerging from recruithood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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