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recruitment

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /


NOUN
enlistment
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Facing tighter recruitment battles, private colleges are now advertising affordability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

It said access to urgent care was a "priority" but the centres had faced financial pressures and ongoing recruitment difficulties.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

David Wain appears in a recruitment video as leader Noel Tannenbaum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Yet the Times also uncovered other evidence that the recruitment plot was real, including text exchanges going back months.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

To the point that when I showed up to Coach Nat’s first recruitment meeting for the Firebirds, seven out of the thirteen other girls who were there knew who I was.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

This year, the agency has offered extra pay to help entice retirement-eligible controllers to stay on, while raising wages for early-career employees and stepping up recruitments to the air-traffic-controller academy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

He built relationships by aiding players’ college recruitments — contacting coaches and driving players to colleges for camps and visits.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

Last year BBC Panorama exposed the organisation's recruitments efforts in the UK.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2021

Our aim is to decrease drastically the number of recruitments to this terrorist organization and to try and deprive it of funds so it will die.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 16, 2017

By detours, by circuitous effort and happy accident, your troops may occasionally squeeze through: but without one secure road open behind them for supplies and recruitments, what good is it?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle


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