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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This Fall While data on striped bass populations has been inconsistent, the Commission is responding to several data points indicating overfishing, including low recruitment rates (yearling bass entering the population) despite an increase in the number of spawning females.
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Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2025
Critics argue that loosening physical and grooming requirements was an effort to make the military more inclusive and broaden recruitment efforts at a time when enlistment numbers have struggled.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Nursing was, and continues to be, a top undergraduate program and was a considerable piece of her recruitment puzzle.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
The board also approved a $21,500 contract with a recruitment firm to conduct a superintendent search.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2025
Critics argue that loosening physical and grooming requirements was an effort to make the military more inclusive and broaden recruitment efforts at a time when enlistment numbers have struggled.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Nursing was, and continues to be, a top undergraduate program and was a considerable piece of her recruitment puzzle.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
The board also approved a $21,500 contract with a recruitment firm to conduct a superintendent search.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 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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