recruitment

noun

re·​cruit·​ment ri-ˈkrüt-mənt 

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

Examples of recruitment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Before we got involved, the company initially promoted internally and then tried traditional recruitment, but neither option produced a leader with the right experience in multicountry sourcing, trade regulations and logistics at scale. —Shawn Cole, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025

In the meantime and as a recruitment process is carried out, ex-Channel 5 boss Dawn Airey is interim chair and Jonathan Allan, Channel 4’s Chief Operating Officer, has taken on the CEO post temporarily. —Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025

Karel De Vries, who successfully led the teams in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands during the recruitment process for the German MD position, will be transitioning to the role of Netherlands MD upon Kalle’s arrival. —Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025

The outlet found a record of his recruitment in a Russian government database. —Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1793, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

recruitment

noun

re·​cruit·​ment ri-ˈkrüt-mənt 

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