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

As Jeff recognizes, college doesn’t have a recruitment problem. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Fedorov, 35, has been credited with an innovative approach to technology and recruitment but clashed with others in Ukraine’s defense establishment. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

None of this accounts for what women lose—the money sunk into recruitment, into trips and parties, into child care, and into all that unsold product. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

The Athletic reported earlier this week that Glasner, like Pereira, will have a role to play in Forest’s recruitment this summer, with the club previously targeting a right-back, a central defender and a central midfielder. — David Ornstein, New York Times, 15 July 2026

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