recruit

Meanings

Noun

• A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
• A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
• A hired worker
• A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.

Verb

• To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
• To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
• To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
• To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
• To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
• To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.

Origin

• From French recruter (as a verb).