Synonyms of recruits

recruits 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of recruit

as in hires

to provide with a paying job

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hires
• employs
• engages
• pays
• places
• enlists
• jobs
• fees
• retains
• signs (up or on)
• partners
• assumes
• takes on
• lays on
• apprentices
• rehires
• contracts
• promotes
• reemploys
• reengages
• scouts
• upgrades
• subcontracts
• keeps (on)
• advances
• headhunts

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cans
• discharges
• dismisses
• fires
• axes
• sacks
• furloughs
• locks out
• lays off

recruits

2 of 2

noun

plural of recruit

as in apprentices

a person who is just starting out in a field of activity

the skydiving instructor and other experienced jumpers tried to encourage the new recruits on their first jump

Synonyms & Similar Words

• apprentices
• freshmen
• novices
• newcomers
• beginners
• rookies
• virgins
• novitiates
• greenhorns
• students
• newbies
• colts
• rooks
• fledglings
• neophytes
• tyros
• punks
• cubs
• trainees
• tenderfeet
• babes
• candidates
• boots
• abecedarians
• amateurs
• entrants
• learners
• dabblers
• probationers
• dilettantes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• veterans
• professionals
• experts
• vets
• masters
• pros
• old-timers
• old hands

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of recruits

Verb

Set against the competitive world of Fleet Street, Murdoch purchases the failing Sun and recruits Lamb, a working-class editor with a very different idea of what a newspaper can be. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026

In the 1990 original, Quaid played a race team owner who recruits Cole into NASCAR, while Nicole Kidman played a neurosurgeon who becomes Cole’s love interest. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026

Most of the industry recruits everyone and trains almost no one — a model critics have compared to multilevel marketing. — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026

To update standards, the department recruits a committee of educators and experts from around the state who meet over several months and produce a recommendation for course descriptions and grade-level expectations and benchmarks. — Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

The star, playing an unnamed Narrator, recruits audience members to help act out a story about grief, as her character recounts her mother’s depression and suicide attempts. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

Every surrogate should have her own independent lawyer paid for by the agency that recruits her. — Arthur L. Caplan, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026

Saldaña plays Joe McNamara, a CIA station chief leading the covert Lioness unit, which recruits and trains female soldiers for global counter-terrorism missions, balancing this with a challenging family life. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Georgia recruits better than almost anyone in the country, and the 2026 edition of this roster will feature a ton of former big-time prospects who waited their turn and were developed the old-fashioned way. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

Noun

The two girls were falsely listed as recruits for the university’s crew team, even though neither ever participated in the sport. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Murry Taylor, who jumped for twenty-seven seasons, many of them with Dow, compared the recruits to wild horses. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

The training also involved using real knives as much as possible to get recruits used to the sharp blades and to instill the needed fighting ethos. — David Szondy august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026

The educational overhaul effectively helps create a stream of potential recruits from the classroom to the army. — Bloomberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

See top recruits, productive returners and rising stars set to command their offenses this fall. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2026

With 26 in-state prospects who already rank among the nation’s top 200 overall junior recruits on the 247Sports Composite rankings, the state, as always, is loaded. — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 27 Aug. 2026

And whenever this season ends, even if that’s after a 16-game run to the national championship game, this crop of recruits might play the least of any Freeman first-year haul. — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

In the Army, the Pentagon's largest service by far, Hispanic recruits grew from about 19% of new enlistees in 2020 to nearly 27% last year, according to internal service data reviewed by ABC News. — Catherine Bouvet, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026