Work and business / B2

ri-KROOT/rɪˈkruːt/

To recruit is to find new members: recruit participants; recruit staff. Hire is everyday for jobs; enlist is military. Do not recruit from your own tutor group without ethics approval. Noun: a recruit. Mix-up: recoup is to get money back. Do not use recruit for buying equipment.

Meaning

To find new people to join an organisation or study.

Examples

• “Do not recruit participants from your own tutor group without ethics approval.”
• “The army recruited at the careers fair, which is the military sense.”

Good to know

recruit staff / participants; a new recruit. Everyday (jobs): hire. Noun: recruitment. Ethics, HR, and armed forces. People, not kit.

Near in meaning

hire

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