recruit - use in sentences

Object

  • volunteer: Master's degree student recruits volunteers for dietary study.
  • graduate: Vacancies We recruit graduates into our audit team in the Bristol office.
  • staff: They recruit 55 alpine staff each winter season, the majority chalet hosts.
  • trainee: We seek to recruit trainees who reflect the wide range of diversity represented by clients using services.
  • trustee: It should also tie in with a greater drive to recruit trustees from the private sector.
  • personnel: A non-executive director will be appointed shortly and the Company is also seeking to recruit key personnel at both management and operational levels.

Converse of object

  • attract: The firm's growing reputation has attracted many new recruits this year from outside the region.

Adjective modifier

  • raw: Sergeant to a raw recruit during a class: Number 26, explain to us what the Fatherland is.
  • potential: He says that Simon is a potential new recruit from the North.
  • new: In breaking in new recruits they should be set to imitate expert workmen in all the details possible.
  • graduate: We have a view that ultimately 50 % of our graduate recruits would have come in via the placement route.

Modifying Another Word

  • actively: We are actively recruiting new members at the moment.

Noun used with modifier

  • army: War was declared on 4th August and Lord Kitchener of Khartoum appealed for 200,000 army recruits during August.
  • graduate: Her major responsibility was the annual training program for the company's graduate recruits.
  • police: It also sucks when you see headlines like ' Al Qaeda ' bomb kills 50 Iraq police recruits ' .

Infinitive complement

  • fill: Around 35 but we are recruiting to fill the extra capacity in our building now our first floor is complete.

Preposition: from

  • rank: Extra teachers must be recruited from the ranks of those who do not now fancy the profession.
  • clinic: Patients will be recruited from leg ulcer clinics in Sheffield and Exeter.

Preposition: for

  • accountant: The company are currently recruiting for a project accountant with industry and Oracle experience.
  • vacancy: In fact, we are currently recruiting for vacancies in the North East starting August 2006.

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