(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ people for an organization, you select them and persuade them to join it or work for it.
The police are trying to ~ more black and Asian officers...
In ~ing students to Computer Systems Engineering, the University looks for evidence of all-round ability...
He helped to ~ volunteers to go to Pakistan to fight.
VERB: V n, V n to/for n, V n to-inf
~er (~ers)
...a Marine ~er.
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~ing
A bomb exploded at an army ~ing office.
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2.
A ~ is a person who has recently joined an organization or an army.
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