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/rəkrˈut/ /rɪkrˈut/ /rikrˈut/ Listen

verb

Recruit v. t. (past & past part. recruited; pres. part. recruiting)

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits. "Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color."

Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.

Recruit v. i.

To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.

noun

Recruit n.

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement. "The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers."

Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

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"Recruit" Quotes from Famous Books

... out from West Point as to the strength of the team. They were said to have the heaviest aggregation behind the line that they had had in twenty years, and it was freely predicted that here, if anywhere, the Blues might find themselves overmatched. The fullback was a new recruit who weighed close to two hundred pounds, and despite his weight was said to be as fast as greased lightning. The two halves were both veterans, and one of them the previous season had been picked for the All-American team in his position. ...

— Bert Wilson on the Gridiron • J. W. Duffield

... difference of times and manners: that an absent prince, engaged in an unjust war with his own brother, and ill-beloved at home, should have so much power and credit, as by his commission to raise twenty thousand men on a sudden, only as a recruit to the army he had already with him; that he should have a fleet prepared ready, and large enough to transport so great a number; that upon the very point of embarking he should send them so disgraceful an offer; and ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift

... standard of the first. In 'Waverley' there was brilliancy of genius.... In 'Guy Mannering' there is little else beyond the wild sallies of an original genius, the bold and irregular efforts of a powerful but an exhausted mind. Time enough has not been allowed him to recruit his resources, both of anecdote and wit; but, encouraged by the credit so justly, bestowed upon one of then most finished portraits ever presented to the world, he has followed up the exhibition with a careless and hurried sketch, which betrays at once the weakness ...

— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... Onofre, and he had two surgeons, Dubois and Le Page. The last two were probably the surgeons of Cossimbazar and Patna. He had also with him M. Lenoir, second of Patna, whose acquaintance with the language and the people was invaluable. Law seems to have been always able to recruit his sepoys, but he had ...

— Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 • S.C. Hill

... was ready and I sought to set this plan in action, an unforeseen obstacle barred the way. To keep the horses from straying up the valley an Indian sentry line was strung above the grazing meadow, and into this I blundered like any unlicked knave of a raw recruit. ...

— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde

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