recruitment
noun
re·cruit·ment
ri-ˈkrüt-mənt 
1
: the action or process of recruiting
2
: the process of adding new individuals to a population or subpopulation (as of breeding or legally catchable individuals) by growth, reproduction, immigration, and stocking
also
: a measure (as in numbers or biomass) of recruitment
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The Army faced a severe recruitment shortfall in 2022, missing its 60,000-enlistment target by 15,000.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
One provocative plan to fix military recruitment comes from Senator Tammy Duckworth, of Illinois.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Jail Oversight Commission is set to meet monthly through April, with experts broken into subcommittees on criminal justice case processing; medical, mental health and substance abuse; and recruitment and retention.
—Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
But referrals remain paramount for customer recruitment.
—Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 31 Jan. 2025
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
One provocative plan to fix military recruitment comes from Senator Tammy Duckworth, of Illinois.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Jail Oversight Commission is set to meet monthly through April, with experts broken into subcommittees on criminal justice case processing; medical, mental health and substance abuse; and recruitment and retention.
—Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
But referrals remain paramount for customer recruitment.
—Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 31 Jan. 2025
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recruitment
noun
re·cruit·ment
ri-ˈkrüt-mənt
1
: the increase in intensity of a reflex when the initiating stimulus is prolonged without alteration of intensity due to the activation of increasing numbers of motor neurons compare reinforcement
2
: an abnormally rapid increase in the sensation of loudness with increasing sound intensity that occurs in deafness of neural origin and especially in neural deafness of the aged in which soft sounds may be completely inaudible while louder sounds are distressingly loud
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