recruitment

noun re·cruit·ment \ ri-ˈkrüt-mənt \

|Updated on: 16 Jun 2018

Definition of recruitment

1 : the action or process of recruiting

2 : the process of adding new individuals to a population or subpopulation (as of breeding or legally catchable individuals) by growth, reproduction, immigration, and stocking; also : a measure (as in numbers or biomass) of recruitment

Recent Examples of recruitment from the Web

Some recruitment of players has been by word of mouth.

— dan rodricks, baltimoresun.com, "Biff Poggi responds to critics of St. Frances football," 7 June 2018
Republican strategists say that’s the result of a strong, disciplined recruitment effort.

— ella nilsen, Vox, "Democratic women running for office are overperforming in 2018, in one chart," 5 June 2018
Some of the area’s top players would choose to play travel ball while their recruitment was open, and then join the high school team senior year and play as long as possible before reporting for college.

— mark stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Summer baseball preview: Your primer for the final season of summer ball," 29 May 2018
Berger's office would not comment on specific job recruitment efforts, but said the state's economic development policy is designed to attract companies interested in hiring North Carolinians.

— deon roberts and brian murphy, charlotteobserver, "NC Senate leader seeks ban on visa workers in overhaul of state incentives program," 28 May 2018
His recruitment was a roller coaster that saw him give his pledge to two programs before ultimately landing with LSU.

— jim derry, NOLA.com, "Lusher OL/DL Tamir Bryant signs as preferred walk on with ULL," 7 Feb. 2018
Navy recruitment saw a major boost in the 1980s and into the 1990s after the original film's release.

— ryan browne, CNN, "Tom Cruise sparks 'Top Gun' feud between US Air Force, Navy," 31 May 2018
It was supposed to take four years, but recruitment has gone much faster than anticipated, driven by word of mouth.

— matthew orr, STAT, "Pioneering surgery makes a prosthetic foot feel like the real thing," 30 May 2018
The recruitment of Martin, who also visited Boston College last month, is sure to only intensify from herein.

— brendan c. hall, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan football offers 8th-grader Tyler Martin a scholarship," 25 May 2018

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First Known Use of recruitment

1793

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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Medical Dictionary

recruitment

noun re·cruit·ment \ ri-ˈkrüt-mənt \

medical Definition of recruitment

1 : the increase in intensity of a reflex when the initiating stimulus is prolonged without alteration of intensity due to the activation of increasing numbers of motor neurons — compare reinforcement

2 : an abnormally rapid increase in the sensation of loudness with increasing sound intensity that occurs in deafness of neural origin and especially in neural deafness of the aged in which soft sounds may be completely inaudible while louder sounds are distressingly loud