rə̇ˈkrütmənt, rēˈ- noun
( -s )
Etymology: recruit (II) + -ment
1. : reinforcement
would guarantee the recruitment of this group from the most promising young men of the land — J.B.Conant
2. : the act or process or recruiting: as
a. : the recruiting of men for an army
b. : an act of offering inducement to qualified personnel to enter a particular job or profession
a recruitment of teachers which shall bring to the profession … men and women of right minds — K.I.Brown
3. : an increment to a natural population (as that resulting from increased survival over a period of time)
4. : the increase in intensity of a reflex when the initiating stimulus is prolonged without alteration of intensity due to the activation of increasing numbers of motoneurons — compare facilitation
5. : an abnormally rapid increase in the sensation of loudness with increasing sound intensity that occurs in deafness of neural origin and especially in neural deafness of the aged in which soft sounds may be completely inaudible while louder sounds are distressingly loud