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

Dhillon, of the DOJ, said the sweeping court agreements being negotiated with police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville would have micromanaged management, training, performance evaluations, discipline, recruitment and hiring. —Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 22 May 2025

For decades, colleges, government agencies and foundations have experimented with recruitment and retention efforts designed to increase diversity in engineering programs. —Sharon Tettegah, The Conversation, 21 May 2025

Don’t waste this valuable real estate on hiring announcements unless recruitment represents your primary objective. —Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025

Pereira’s style will inevitably evolve with some summer recruitment and a first Wolves pre-season around the corner. —Steve Madeley, New York Times, 19 May 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