recruit
part of speech
verb (recruit, recruits, recruited, recruiting); noun (a recruit, recruits)
meaning for a pupil
1) verb To find and get new people to join a group, team, army or company. tree →
2) noun A new member, especially of the army or police. tree →
3) verb (informal) To get someone to help you: «I recruited my sister to help clean.» tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life clubs recruit new members; companies recruit workers. In history, armies recruited soldiers with posters. Phrases: «new recruits», «recruit volunteers», «recruitment».
examples
- The football club is recruiting new players. tree →
- The army recruits trained hard at camp. tree →
- I recruited my friends to help with the bake sale. tree →
- The school wants to recruit more volunteers. tree →
- She was recruited as a lifeguard for the summer. tree →
- The new recruit was nervous on his first day. tree →
- It was the colonel himself who came with the patrol, and he was not a little surprised when he found the recruit safe and sound. tree →
note
Spelling: re-cr-UI-t (the «ui» says «oo»). Noun for the process: «recruitment». Countable noun.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «recruit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.