recruitre‧cruit1 /rɪˈkruːt/ ●●○ verb 
Verb Table Examples
We’re having difficulty recruiting enough qualified staff. Many government officials were recruited from private industry.2[intransitive, transitive] to get people to join the army, navy etc → conscript: Most of the men in the village were recruited that day.3[transitive] to persuade someone to do something for yourecruit somebody to do something I recruited three of my friends to help me move.—recruiter noun [countable]
Verb TableVERB TABLE
recruit
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | recruit |
| he, she, it | recruits | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | recruited |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have recruited |
| he, she, it | has recruited | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had recruited |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will recruit |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have recruited |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am recruiting |
| he, she, it | is recruiting | |
| you, we, they | are recruiting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was recruiting |
| you, we, they | were recruiting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been recruiting |
| he, she, it | has been recruiting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been recruiting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be recruiting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been recruiting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Efforts to recruit more men to the priesthood have not been successful.
- For the controlled study on drinking habits, we recruited men between 35 and 45.
- It's getting more and more difficult to recruit experienced staff.
- The police department is trying to recruit more black officers.
- The Young Adventurers are trying to recruit more girls.
- We're not recruiting at the moment.
- Great Groups are headed by people confident enough to recruit people better than themselves.
- If you recruit under pressure because you are short of people, you will recruit apes.
- Quintas told police he was recruited by a man in Brighton who has not been traced.
- The 10-player team is recruited from a student body of 96, only 42 of which are girls.
- The person who recruited Nowak, or who had been recruited by him, would be trembling with anticipation.
- There were others who would have to be recruited.
Longman Language Activatorto get someone to join a club or organization► recruit
Collocations to find people to work for, or become members of, an organization or group: · The Young Adventurers are trying to recruit more girls.· We're not recruiting at the moment.· For the controlled study on drinking habits, we recruited men between 35 and 45.
to give someone a job► give somebody a job · If I give you the job, how soon can you begin?· After law school, he was given a job in the city's legal department.give sb a job as · Goldman gave her a job as his assistant.
► employ also hire especially American to give someone a job and pay them for the work they do for you: · Since he came out of prison no one will employ him.· The company has been accused of not hiring enough women.employ as: · I was employed as a night-watchman by the local hospital.· She was hired as marketing director for a biotechnology firm.
► take on if a company takes on someone, it gives them a job - use this especially about a job that might not be permanent or when a lot of people are given jobs at the same time: take on somebody: · We're not taking on any more staff at the moment.take somebody etc on: · Franklin needed an assistant, and he got funding from the department to take one on. take somebody on as something: · The director took me on as a messenger while they were filming in my village.
► engage British formal to give someone a job: · The vet was increasingly busy and had to engage two new assistants.engage somebody as something: · Paul was engaged as a junior clerk at a very low wage.
► appoint to choose someone for a job, especially an important job: · The French president has appointed a new Minister for Culture.· The committee was appointed to make recommendations on housing development in the area.appoint somebody as director/manager etc: · When he was governor, Brown appointed Rose Bird as chief justice of the California Supreme Court.appoint somebody director/manager etc: · Schreiber was appointed director of human resources.appoint somebody to a job/post/ position etc: · This is the first time that a woman has been appointed to the post.
► recruit to find new people to work for a company or organization such as the army: · The police department is trying to recruit more black officers.· It's getting more and more difficult to recruit experienced staff.
► sign up also sign American if a football team, record company, film company etc signs up or signs someone, they agree to give them a job and make them sign an official contract: · Allegre was signed by the New York Jets.· Six episodes of the show have been taped, and the actors have been signed for six more.sign up somebody: · England soccer star Paul Gascoigne was signed up by a top Italian club.sign somebody up: · The band have just completed a highly successful US tour, and several record companies have offered to sign them up.
WORD SETS► Employmentabsenteeism, nounarticled clerk, black economy, nounbloodletting, nounblue-collar, adjectivebook-keeper, nounboss, nounbusiness agent, career path, nouncareer structure, nounCFO, Chartered Financial Consultant, nounCIO, co-manager, nouncommercial agent, company car, nouncompany doctor, company officer, competence, nouncompliance officer, co-worker, nouncreative director, curriculum vitae, nounCV, noundeputy chairman, deskill, verbdismiss, verbdowngrade, verbdownsize, verbearn, verbearner, nounemploy, verbemployable, adjectiveemployee, nounemployer, nounemployment agency, nounengage, verbenrolled agent, escrow agent, executive chairman, filing clerk, fill-in, nounfull-time, adjectiveheadhunter, nounhealth and safety, nounhuman resources, nounjob application, job centre, nounjobless, adjectivelabour exchange, nounledger clerk, moonlight, verbnatural wastage, nounnepotism, nounnetworking, nounnine to five, adverbnumber-cruncher, nounoccupational, adjectiveoff, adverboff-duty, adjectiveoperative, nounoutwork, nounoverseer, nounoverstaffed, adjectivepenalty clause, nounpension fund, nounpension plan, nounpersonnel, nounpiecework, nounpositive discrimination, nounpost, nounpreferment, nounproject engineer, qualification, nounqualify, verbquit, verbrecommendation, nounrecruit, verbredeploy, verbredundancy, nounredundant, adjectivereferee, nounreference, nounreinstate, verbresearch manager, resign, verbresignation, nounresume, nounretired, adjectiveretiree, nounretirement, nounself-employed, adjectivesharecropper, nounshift, nounskilled, adjectivetechnical analyst, testimonial, nountime and motion study, nountrainee, nountransfer agent, underemployed, adjectiveundermanned, adjectiveunderstaffed, adjectiveunemployable, adjectiveunemployed, adjectiveunemployment, noununemployment benefit, noununskilled, adjectivevacancy, nounvacant, adjectivewhite-collar, adjectiveworkday, nounwork experience, nounworkforce, nounworking papers, nounworkweek, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an army recruit
1[intransitive, transitive] to find new people to work in a company, join an organization, do a job etc: · The army recruits must undergo basic training.
► recruit employees (=offer them jobs)· We are recruiting employees for our IT division.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► army· Each province and each city state has its own separate army which it recruits, trains, and maintains.· Of the first 126 soldiers relieved from duty in an army recruiting scandal, only three were officers.· The army had recruited talented engineers and others from all over the United States for special duty on the project.
► candidate· They need to recruit the best possible candidates.· And it is recruiting attractive candidates for the Senate and House.· It also insisted that each committee must recruit candidates to be trained by the Union to act as local health workers.
► company· A company that consistently recruits from outside induces its staff to move elsewhere - this is expensive in terms of lost experience.· Together, these companies plan to recruit well over 50, 000 workers during 1996· This is particularly true when companies recruit young women and members of minority groups into nontraditional fields.· In Rennes a company of children was recruited from the more affluent middle class.· Beyster created his company quietly, recruiting talented scientists and making friends in government circles.· It is an offence for companies to recruit a non-disabled worker when they are below the quota.
► employee· Unfortunately, they allowed his notice to expire without further action and proceeded to recruit new employees.· Industries with critical labor shortages launched youth apprenticeships as a way to recruit skilled employees.· Have you costed out how much it costs to recruit a key employee?
► employer· Fewer employers are seeking to recruit at 16+. 21.· Start comparing different employers and how they recruit, what they want and what they are offering.· Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate.· Some employers recruit on the basis of interviews held in hotels as visiting recruitment forums.
► officer· We recruit uniformed officers into plain clothes so that people like yourself, who are being eliminated, won't feel under pressure.· Eventually, the sole military person on the base was a junior lieutenant recruited as commissary officer.· The recruiting officer signed him up with a conspirator's wink.· She was probably important, an adviser to radical students and a recruiting officer or handler of agents.· The Commander-in-Chief agreed to the plan and also authorized Stirling to recruit a further six officers and up to forty men.
► personnel· We have recruited new personnel and moved some people around inside the company.· After World War I its activities were severely limited by lack of funds and its inability to recruit good personnel.
► service· Three out of every four traitors were volunteers, it found; fewer than a quarter were recruited by hostile intelligence services.
► staff· Against this background, it's no surprise that housing associations are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff.· It takes months to recruit a new staff of investigators.· Throughout the 1980s there were drives to recruit more specialist fraud staff.· But all Kent schools were finding it difficult to recruit supply staff.· There are plans to recruit more staff later this year.· The University wishes to continue to recruit and retain staff of the highest quality.· Wherever possible we recruit skilled staff locally.
► volunteer· Just as important, Dwyer launched a major public consultation exercise, recruiting 100 volunteers representing a cross section of the population.· The council race is non-partisan but party affiliation often helps in recruiting volunteers and raising money.· In response to such shortages bureaux may mount campaigns to recruit more volunteers.· The National Lottery may be a catalyst for a change in this attitude, and so might the problems with recruiting volunteers.
► worker· A near neighbour was recruited as a support worker and she too began to become involved in the family arguments.· They need organizing, encouraging and recruiting by full-time paid workers.· Management moved immediately to recruit workers in almost every department of the factory.· It is an offence for companies to recruit a non-disabled worker when they are below the quota.
We’re having difficulty recruiting enough qualified staff. Many government officials were recruited from private industry.2[intransitive, transitive] to get people to join the army, navy etc → conscript: Most of the men in the village were recruited that day.3[transitive] to persuade someone to do something for yourecruit somebody to do something I recruited three of my friends to help me move.—recruiter noun [countable]