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{
"term": "recruit",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "recruit",
"heSheIt": "recruits"
},
"pastSimple": "recruited",
"pastParticiple": "recruited",
"ingForm": "recruiting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to find new people to join a company, an organization, the armed forces, etc.",
"sensetop": "recruit (somebody)recruit somebody to somethingrecruit somebody to do something",
"labels": "(British English)(British English)(North American English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(both especially British English)(especially North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We are trying to recruit officers from more diverse backgrounds.",
"contextForm": "recruit (somebody)"
},
{
"text": "He's responsible for recruiting at all levels."
},
{
"text": "They **recruited** several new **members** to the club.",
"contextForm": "recruit somebody to something"
},
{
"text": "They **recruited** more **staff** to deal with the complaints.",
"contextForm": "recruit somebody to do something"
},
{
"text": "A hundred patients were recruited for the study."
},
{
"text": "GM recruited heavily in the South."
},
{
"text": "Most of the workers will be recruited locally."
},
{
"text": "Peter Watson has been recruited as Sales Manager."
},
{
"text": "Senior managers are being aggressively recruited by companies."
},
{
"text": "She personally recruited the teachers."
},
{
"text": "Soldiers were recruited from the local villages."
},
{
"text": "Some of the men were recruited into the army."
},
{
"text": "Staff were recruited specially for the event."
},
{
"text": "Ten new members were recruited to the committee."
},
{
"text": "The specialist institutions directly recruit their own staff."
},
{
"text": "a drive to recruit and retain federal employees"
}
],
"topics": ["Law and justice", "War and conflict", "Working life"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["directly", "actively", "aggressively"],
"verb + recruit": ["need to", "seek to", "try to"],
"preposition": ["as", "for", "from"],
"phrases": [
"newly recruited",
"recently recruited",
"recruit and retain somebody"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to persuade somebody to do something, especially to help you",
"sensetop": "recruit somebody to do something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We were recruited to help peel the vegetables."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["directly", "actively", "aggressively"],
"verb + recruit": ["need to", "seek to", "try to"],
"preposition": ["as", "for", "from"],
"phrases": [
"newly recruited",
"recently recruited",
"recruit and retain somebody"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to form a new army, team, etc. by persuading new people to join it",
"sensetop": "recruit something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to recruit a task force"
}
],
"topics": ["Working life"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːt/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruit__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːts/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruits__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪd/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruited__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruiting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːt/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruit__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːts/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruits__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪd/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruited__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/recruit/recruiting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 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’."
}