{
    "term": "recruit",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "recruit",
            "heSheIt": "recruits"
        },
        "pastSimple": "recruited",
        "pastParticiple": "recruited",
        "ingForm": "recruiting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to find new people to join a company, an organization, the armed forces, etc.",
            "sensetop": "recruit (somebody)recruit somebody to somethingrecruit somebody to do something",
            "labels": "(British English)(British English)(North American English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(both especially British English)(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are trying to recruit officers from more diverse backgrounds.",
                    "contextForm": "recruit (somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's responsible for recruiting at all levels."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **recruited** several new **members** to the club.",
                    "contextForm": "recruit somebody to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **recruited** more **staff** to deal with the complaints.",
                    "contextForm": "recruit somebody to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A hundred patients were recruited for the study."
                },
                {
                    "text": "GM recruited heavily in the South."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the workers will be recruited locally."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Peter Watson has been recruited as Sales Manager."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Senior managers are being aggressively recruited by companies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She personally recruited the teachers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Soldiers were recruited from the local villages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the men were recruited into the army."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Staff were recruited specially for the event."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ten new members were recruited to the committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The specialist institutions directly recruit their own staff."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a drive to recruit and retain federal employees"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice", "War and conflict", "Working life"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["directly", "actively", "aggressively"],
                "verb + recruit": ["need to", "seek to", "try to"],
                "preposition": ["as", "for", "from"],
                "phrases": [
                    "newly recruited",
                    "recently recruited",
                    "recruit and retain somebody"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to persuade somebody to do something, especially to help you",
            "sensetop": "recruit somebody to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We were recruited to help peel the vegetables."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["directly", "actively", "aggressively"],
                "verb + recruit": ["need to", "seek to", "try to"],
                "preposition": ["as", "for", "from"],
                "phrases": [
                    "newly recruited",
                    "recently recruited",
                    "recruit and retain somebody"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to form a new army, team, etc. by persuading new people to join it",
            "sensetop": "recruit something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to recruit a task force"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːt/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruit__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːts/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruits__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪd/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruited__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruiting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːt/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruit__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːts/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruits__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪd/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruited__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈkruːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/recruit/recruiting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (in the senses ‘fresh body of troops’ and ‘supplement the numbers in a group’): from obsolete French dialect recrute, based on Latin recrescere ‘grow again’, from re- ‘again’ + crescere ‘grow’."
}