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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On the morning of the inaugural Wrestlepalooza premium live event, WWE Superstar Chelsea Green has taken to social media to announce a recruitment drive.
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Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Tom Dretler, the chief executive of Shorelight, which helps colleges with overseas recruitment, told me that the over-all figure hides wide variations by institution.
—Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
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In March 2015, Center informed the student’s father that U-Texas would be sending the student a letter of intent for a ‘books’ scholarship, which provides funding for a student’s textbooks, as part of the athletic recruitment process.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
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Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Tom Dretler, the chief executive of Shorelight, which helps colleges with overseas recruitment, told me that the over-all figure hides wide variations by institution.
—Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … ‘FAKE NEWS’ – Pentagon calls NBC report ‘100% wrong’ over Charlie Kirk military recruitment claims.
—FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In March 2015, Center informed the student’s father that U-Texas would be sending the student a letter of intent for a ‘books’ scholarship, which provides funding for a student’s textbooks, as part of the athletic recruitment process.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 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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