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RECRUIT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)

Synonyms:

enlistee; recruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("recruit" is a kind of...):

entrant; fledgeling; fledgling; freshman; neophyte; newbie; newcomer; starter (any new participant in some activity)

Derivation:

recruit (cause to assemble or enlist in the military)

recruit (register formally as a participant or member)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A recently enlisted soldier

Synonyms:

military recruit; recruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("recruit" is a kind of...):

enlisted man (a male enlisted person in the armed forces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recruit"):

Black and Tan (an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921)

raw recruit (an inexperienced and untrained recruit)

sprog (a new military recruit)

yard bird; yardbird (a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks)

Derivation:

recruit (cause to assemble or enlist in the military)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military

Example:

recruit new soldiers

Synonyms:

levy; raise; recruit

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "recruit" is one way to...):

draft; enlist; muster in (engage somebody to enter the army)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

recruit (any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces))

recruit (a recently enlisted soldier)

recruiter (an official who enlists personnel for military service)

recruitment (the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Seek to employ

Example:

The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recruit" is one way to...):

engage; enlist (hire for work or assistance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

recruitment (the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Register formally as a participant or member

Example:

The party recruited many new members

Synonyms:

enrol; enroll; enter; inscribe; recruit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "recruit" is one way to...):

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recruit"):

draft; enlist; muster in (engage somebody to enter the army)

unionise; unionize (recruit for a union or organize into a union)

register (enroll to vote)

matriculate (enroll as a student)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

recruit (any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces))

recruiter (someone who supplies members or employees)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Eotaxin is a chemokine ligand for CCR3 that recruits eosinophils to the site of inflammation and activates them.

(CCR3 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Recruited by transcription preinitiation or DNA damage recognition complexes, ERCC2 is involved in RNA polymerase II transcription, transcription-coupled nucleotide excision DNA repair, and cell cycle regulation.

(ERCC2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Like Neuregulin 1, Neuregulin 2 binds to transmembrane ERBB3 and ERBB4 tyrosine kinase receptors, recruits ERBB1 and ERBB2 coreceptors, and induces receptor activation.

(Neuregulin 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Peretinoin binds to and activates nuclear retinoic acid receptors (RAR), which in turn recruit coactivator proteins and promote, with other transcriptional complexes, the transcription of target genes.

(Peretinoin, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the countries from which participants will be, are intended to be, or have been recruited for an activity.

(Participating Country Code, NCI Thesaurus)

PAG recruits CSK to the plasma membrane, independent of FYN.

(Phosphoprotein Associated with GEMs, NCI Thesaurus)

Different coactivators are recruited by Pitx2 and other transcription factors like Myc to the Cyclin D2 promoter, with CBP/p300 recruited first, followed by NLI/Ldb/CLIM, Tip60/TRRAP, and PBP coactivators.

(Pitx2 Transcription Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The splicing factor SF3b is a multiprotein complex integral to the accurate excision of introns from pre-messenger RNA; the subunit SAP130 associates with U2 snRNP and is recruited to prespliceosomal complexes.

(Pladienolide Derivative E7107, NCI Thesaurus)

PARP catalyzes post-translational ADP-ribosylation of nuclear proteins that signal and recruit other proteins to repair damaged DNA and can be activated by single strand DNA (ssDNA) breaks.

(PARP-1/2 Inhibitor ABT-767, NCI Thesaurus)

PARP catalyzes post-translational ADP-ribosylation of nuclear proteins that signal and recruit other proteins to repair damaged DNA and can be activated by single strand breaks in DNA.

(PARP Inhibitor CEP-9722, NCI Thesaurus)