- a person who has recently joined the armed forces or the police
- the training of new recruits
- He spoke of us scornfully as raw recruits (= people without training or experience).
Extra ExamplesTopics Law and justiceb2, War and conflictb2- Army recruits are all trained in first aid.
- Thousands of recruits had been enlisted and partly trained.
- raw recruits marching up and down with the drill instructor
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- latest
- new
- raw
- …
- find
- attract
- enlist
- …
- recruit to
- a person who joins an organization, a company, etc.
- They are stepping up attempts to attract new recruits to the nursing profession.
Extra Examples- All members were urged to go out and try to gain new recruits for the party.
- Their business schools provide recruits for domestic industry.
- It's difficult to attract recruits when working conditions are so poor.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- latest
- new
- raw
- …
- find
- attract
- enlist
- …
- recruit to
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the senses ‘fresh body of troops’ and ‘supplement the numbers in a group’): from obsolete French dialect recrute, based on Latin recrescere ‘grow again’, from re- ‘again’ + crescere ‘grow’.
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