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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

reclutare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /rek.luˈta.re/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Recruit/rɪˈkruːt/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La società deve reclutare nuovo personale per il progetto."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To enlist someone in the armed forces or to formally hire new personnel for an organization or company.

    "The tech firm plans to recruit top engineering graduates from various universities."
As noun
  1. 1

    A newly enlisted member of the armed forces or a new employee or member of an organization.

    "The military camp welcomed the new recruits with rigorous morning exercises."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle French recruter, meaning to replenish or levy, stemming from Old French recroitre (to grow again), from Latin rescrescere. The semantic shift moved from reinforcing military troops to enlisting new members for any organization, enterprise, or cause.

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