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recruitment

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /


NOUN
enlistment
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At Shenandoah University, administrators a few years ago began asking students about ways to improve recruitment and retention at the 150-year-old private school in northern Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

County sheriff’s recruitment and training facility, a special enforcement bureau, multiple sheriff’s stations and L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Both parties are trying to remedy mistakes of elections past in the hopes of winning over the Gen Z vote, launching targeted recruitment efforts, hiring more young people and leaning into social media.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

The global star appeared in a stylish black-and-white video for the retail chain's part-time worker recruitment campaign and can be seen performing tasks typically set out for staff working at the franchise.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Behind the glossaries of warning calls, alarms, mating messages, pronouncements of territory, calls for recruitment, and demands for dispersal, there is redundant, elegant sound that is unaccountable as part of the working day.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

This year, the agency has offered extra pay to help entice retirement-eligible controllers to stay on, while raising wages for early-career employees and stepping up recruitments to the air-traffic-controller academy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

“When I got there, I saw banners advertising recruitments for the army. By then, I had spent so much time and money that I decided to join anyway,” he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

He built relationships by aiding players’ college recruitments — contacting coaches and driving players to colleges for camps and visits.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

Then I think outside of that … there’s recruitments that haunt me from my two years there, at positions of need.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022

The sicknesses are ceasing; the recruitments are coming in: shortly all will be complete.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle




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