recruit
verb
[ rɪˈkruːt ]
• enlist (someone) in the armed forces.
• "we recruit our toughest soldiers from the desert tribes"
Similar:
enlist,
sign up,
enrol,
engage,
take on,
round up,
call up,
conscript,
draft,
muster in,
induct,
press,
press-gang,
shanghai,
levy,
impress,
list,
conscribe,
crimp,
attest,
• replenish or reinvigorate (numbers, strength, etc.).
• "travelling was said to recruit the constitution"
recruit
noun
• a person newly enlisted in the armed forces and not yet fully trained.
Origin:
mid 17th century (in the senses ‘fresh body of troops’ and ‘supplement the numbers in a group’): from obsolete French dialect recrute, based on Latin recrescere ‘grow again’, from re- ‘again’ + crescere ‘grow’.
