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recruitment

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /


NOUN
enlistment
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The company is seeking to keep costs down, minimizing discretionary spending and pausing recruitment of nonoperational staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

In a further statement to BBC News NI, a QUB spokesperson said that the university was "facing increasing financial pressures arising from reduced public funding, lower student recruitment income and rising costs".

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The special festivities held enough distractions, with so many people milling around the train depot, that no one noticed Ned Gillen at the army recruitment station, signing his name on the dotted line.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

“When I got there, I saw banners advertising recruitments for the army. By then, I had spent so much time and money that I decided to join anyway,” he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

They are demanding that authorities resolve a number of issues, including the recruitments process and promotions.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

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

At one time, his force was reduced to five hundred men, and for two months, with all his recruitments of raw militia, did not exceed seven hundred.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving


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