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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or business of recruiting; the act of raising new supplies of men for an army or a navy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or of recruits for the armed forces
  • noun A style or process of recruiting
  • noun biology, ecology The addition of new recruits to a population.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

Etymologies

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recruit +‎ -ment, (French: recrutement)

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