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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Injuries, new player adaptation and recruitment focusing on technical players while the rest of the league prepared for a fight.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 17 May 2026
Workforce demographic data enables employers to design lawful DEI strategies to reduce barriers to equal opportunity, such as implementing broader recruitment measures or ensuring that all hiring criteria are job-related.
—Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
But, oh, was that year — Stokes’ recruitment process — filled with twists and turns.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
The Russian recruitment efforts have typically promised that university students can serve as drone pilots without risking their lives in bloody infantry assaults on Ukrainian trenches and fortifications.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 17 May 2026
Workforce demographic data enables employers to design lawful DEI strategies to reduce barriers to equal opportunity, such as implementing broader recruitment measures or ensuring that all hiring criteria are job-related.
—Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
But, oh, was that year — Stokes’ recruitment process — filled with twists and turns.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
The Russian recruitment efforts have typically promised that university students can serve as drone pilots without risking their lives in bloody infantry assaults on Ukrainian trenches and fortifications.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
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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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