Synonyms of recruited

recruited

verb

past tense of recruit

as in hired

to provide with a paying job

thousands of recent immigrants were recruited to build the nation's rail system

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hired
• employed
• engaged
• enlisted
• paid
• placed
• retained
• signed (up or on)
• assumed
• laid on
• feed
• took on
• partnered
• rehired
• reemployed
• subcontracted
• apprenticed
• promoted
• contracted
• jobbed
• scouted
• reengaged
• upgraded
• kept (on)
• headhunted
• advanced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismissed
• discharged
• fired
• sacked
• canned
• laid off
• axed
• locked out
• furloughed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of recruited

According to the plea agreement, Saavedra recruited around 20 to 25 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, as well as at least one former sheriff’s deputy and a sibling of a sheriff’s deputy, to work the shifts. — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

Most of the workers involved were from India, where they were recruited. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026

For their 40-date run at the Sphere in Las Vegas, his bandmates recruited a substitute drummer, Bram van den Berg. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

His new solo album, Wowed Out, arrives after years of music with My Morning Jacket and several other projects, but its origins reach back 15 years, when James was recruited to write soundtrack music for an unnamed feature film. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2026

For his druggy riff on Big Daddy, Firstman recruited former enemies, current friends, and a variety of other personalities from New York’s LGBTQ+ party scene. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 25 Sep. 2026

The funding includes support for youth at risk of being recruited by gangs and programs for the reintegration of those already involved with the gangs. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026

She is gradually recruited into the household’s emotional weather. — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026

In 1693, Antoine Theroux, an impoverished 18-year-old boatman, was recruited to defend New France, as Canada was then known, against the Indigenous tribes and the British for King Louis XIV. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2026