recruitment B2 Topic:People & Society US /rɪˈkruːt.mənt/ See IPA manual Freq #19923 Meanings 1 noun The process of finding and hiring new people for jobs or for the armed forces. The company has launched a recruitment drive to hire fifty new staff. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the process of finding and... enlisting Word family Forms recruitments Derived forms corecruitmentdecruitmentderecruitmente-cruitmente-recruitmenthyperrecruitmentoverrecruitmentpostrecruitmentprerecruitmentunderrecruitment Related forms recruiter Etymology AI details From recruit + -ment. French recrutement. recrutement French View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # recruitment **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /rɪˈkruːt.mənt/ **Frequency rank:** 19923 ## Meanings 1. The process of finding and hiring new people for jobs or for the armed forces. ## Examples - The company has launched a recruitment drive to hire fifty new staff. ## Derived Forms - corecruitment - decruitment - derecruitment - e-cruitment - e-recruitment - hyperrecruitment - overrecruitment - postrecruitment - prerecruitment - underrecruitment ## Related Forms - recruiter ## Roots and Affixes - Root: recrutement ## Etymology From recruit + -ment. French recrutement. ## AI Etymology Recruitment comes from recruit + -ment. French recrutement. The historical chain includes recrutement (French). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as corecruitment, decruitment, derecruitment, and e-cruitment and related forms such as recruiter. In present use it covers the process of finding and hiring new people for jobs or for the armed forces. ## Topics - People & Society markdown