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

Goldman Sachs’ campus recruitment team leading hiring for the bank’s private investing academy in EMEA sent out an email to students this June reminding them of its expectations for interviews. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025

Until last season, these players could be freely re-signed by their teams or others, one of the biggest criticisms of the league's recruitment system. —Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025

Not everyone applied for the program; some were scouted and a few have little to no experience in the sport, selected instead for the potential shown at recruitment camps held around the world. —Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025

And Queens’ location may prove to be a plus for Elon’s undergraduate recruitment, Heckler said, as college-age students are gravitating more toward schools in urban areas than rural or suburban locales in recent years. —Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 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