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/rəkrˈut/ /rɪkrˈut/ /rikrˈut/ Listen

verb

Recruit v. t. (past & past part. recruited; pres. part. recruiting)

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits. "Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color."

Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.

Recruit v. i.

To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.

noun

Recruit n.

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement. "The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers."

Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

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Etymology of 'Recruit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recruit" Quotes from Famous Books

... rustling over his head, watching Ollie as she went to and fro about her work of clearing away. Morgan was in the door, his back against the jamb, leisurely smoking his pipe. Once in a while a snoring beetle passed in above his head to join his fellows around the lamp. As each recruit to the blundering company arrived, Morgan slapped at him as he passed, making Ollie laugh. On the low, splotched ceiling of the kitchen the flies shifted and buzzed, changing ...

— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... repeated Thorvald's question. "No answer, sir." He gave the traditional reply of the Service recruit. And a little to his surprise Thorvald laughed with a tinge ...

— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton

... double blue line tattooed on his cheeks from the ears to the nose, on the bridge of which it met in a blue spot. Hence Lawrence, following the natural bent of his mind, which he had already displayed in naming Coppernose, immediately addressed this new recruit ...

— The Pioneers • R.M. Ballantyne

... pricked up his ears. From the bravest revolutionary party in Russia he could surely cull a recruit or two. 'Who ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... Paris, France, a descendant of the signer. West returned to his home in Springfield, in 1754, to discuss the question of his future vocation. He had an inclination for military life, and volunteered as a recruit in the old French war; but military attractions vanished among the hardships involved, and in 1756, when eighteen years old, he established himself in Philadelphia as a portrait-painter, his price being "five guineas a head." Two years later he went to New York, where he passed eleven months, and ...

— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various

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