recruitment

noun

Definition of recruitmentnext
1
as in retrieval

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2
as in employment

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Recent Examples of recruitment The Army and Air Force both have recruitment offices in the building as well. — Karri Peifer, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025 The recruitment effort, known as Project Red TX, is still operating today. — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 The issue involved whether the committee could use a recruitment firm to anonymously rank candidates who would be presented for consideration at a future meeting. — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2025 The British army and navy barely met 60 percent of their recruitment targets for the 2023-24 financial year and the nation's air force did not do much better. — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for recruitment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recruitment
  1. retrieval
  2. employment
  3. reclamation
  4. assignment
  5. recovery
  6. appointment
  7. conscription
  8. engagement
Noun
  • Finally, a quartet of electrostatic units offers exceptional transient response and micro-detail retrieval.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The biological cause of AD is linked to the accumulation of amyloid plaques, tau tangles, and synaptic loss in brain regions such as the hippocampus and cortex, which are critical for higher cognitive functions like memory retrieval.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of retrieval
Noun
  • The agency tracks employment and payroll tax payments for all workers with a Social Security number and automatically calculates old age benefits.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Parasite’s portrayal of these upstairs-downstairs dynamics is even more overt; the members of the struggling Kim household, who live in a basement-level apartment and juggle odd jobs, alight on a crafty employment scheme after encountering an ultra-wealthy family.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of employment
Noun
  • In the reality that has no scare quotes, though, the reclamation of evidence might also look like impunity.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025
  • With a reasonable $3.5 million cap hit for another two years, this is the kind of reclamation project the Penguins should be investing in.
    — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of reclamation
Noun
  • Fort Worth Star-Telegram Lillie Davidson is a general assignment reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a TCU student studying journalism (Go Frogs!).
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The conservative House Freedom Caucus then called for Green to be stripped of his committee assignments, potentially taking away a key bully pulpit and vehicle for influencing legislation.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of assignment
Noun
  • Benintendi suffered the injury on Feb. 27, with an initial recovery timeline of four to six weeks.
    — LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Lovell recalls being belowdecks aboard the recovery vessel USS Wasp shortly after splashdown and being evaluated by a NASA psychologist.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of recovery
Noun
  • This very much makes sense for the house, especially following the appointment of Alessandro Michele.
    — Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 11 Mar. 2025
  • With just a few taps on the app, the mother of this kid could now secure a doctor's appointment for the morning.
    — Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of appointment
Noun
  • Improving Ukraine’s position will require Ukraine to reduce its conscription age to 18.
    — STEPHEN HADLEY, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2025
  • These men, who had fled Syria to escape conscription into Assad's army, were heartbroken as their families in Syria fled to mountains, fearing for their lives.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Definition of conscription
Noun
  • However, Severance also serves as a stark warning: organizations that fail to integrate personal identity into their leadership models risk creating rigid, siloed environments that stifle innovation and employee engagement.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The event that makes the difference in the numbers was February’s Grammy Awards, with an earned engagement of $1.3 billion, vs. $976.6 million in 2024.
    — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of engagement

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