Usually means: Enlist someone for a purpose.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. recruit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recruit: Merriam-Webster
  3. recruit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recruit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recruit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recruit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Recruit, recruit: Wordnik
  8. recruit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. recruit: Wiktionary
  10. recruit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recruit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. recruit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. recruit: Dictionary.com
  14. recruit (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. recruit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Recruit (company), Recruit (disambiguation), Recruit, The Recruit (Dad's Army), The Recruit (TV series), The Recruit (disambiguation), The Recruit (novel), The Recruit, The recruit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Recruit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. recruit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. recruit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. recruit: FreeDictionary.org
  21. recruit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. recruit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. recruit: Rhymezone
  24. recruit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. recruit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recruit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. recruit: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. recruit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recruit: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. recruit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. recruit: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See recruited as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
noun:  A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
noun:  A hired worker
noun:  (biology, ecology) A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
verb:  To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
verb:  To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
verb:  (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
verb:  (biology, intransitive) To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
verb:  (biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
verb:  (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.

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