2. Verb. (third-person singular of recruit) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recruits
1. recruit [v] - See also: recruit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recruits
Literary usage of Recruits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Since, in all the experiments, recruits were captured on their first visit, one
may assume that recruits did not contribute to the level of the ..."
2. Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American by Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1869)
"To determine the law of distribution for recruits according to ages, in the same
manner as we have already done for the volunteers, is impossible. ..."
3. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"In all foreign armies in which the physical standard required of the recruits is
high, the rates for sickness and death have been proportionately low. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"Although 1 have, while officiating as staff-surgeon, rejected a number of recruits
on account of small ventral hernia, and also in consequence of slight ..."
5. The Military Policy of the United States by Emory Upton (1912)
"In June, some 80 recruits mutinied at Lancaster, and fancying themselves aggrieved,
marched to Philadelphia, where they were joined by about 200 comrades ..."
6. Military Recruiting: Dod Could Improve Its Recruiter Selection & Incentive edited by Carol R. Schuster (1998)
"The services now encourage recruits to maintain or improve their physical fitness
level so that they will be able to meet the initial physical conditioning ..."
Other Resources:
