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recruitment

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /


NOUN
enlistment
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One is, we thought it was a recruitment issue.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

We did a big recruitment campaign, had over a thousand recruits.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

In 1914, recruitment stations were flooded with volunteers eager to serve their country.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Zimmer’s interest in expanding kosher dining options at Harvard and emphasizing Jewish day school recruitment drew from his family’s experience at Brown, said people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

And all over the country, teens and young adults who had grown up believing they would come of age in wartime rushed to military posts and recruitment offices to volunteer to defend their Motherland.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

In spite of the obvious failure of the autumnal campaign, the cause of the knighthood did not by any means look irretrievably desperate, since there was always the possibility of successful recruitments the following spring.

From German Culture Past and Present by Ernest Belfort Bax




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