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  • verb Present participle of recruit.

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Examples

  • A reunion of the 1985 Final Four team brought back memories of when the Red Storm dominated the city in recruiting, which is much tougher to do these days with the way the landscape of college basketball has changed.

    Big East Conference 2010

  • Punch at this time was a bitter critic of the methods of recruiting, and his anti-militaristic zeal reached a climax in a protest against the advertisements used at Birmingham and elsewhere, in which he calls the recruiting sergeant "the clown in the bloody pantomime of glory."

    Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

  • The case of detainee Omar Khadr highlights how President Barack Obama has struggled to carry out a pledge he made immediately after taking office to close the globally unpopular military prison, which he called a recruiting tool for terrorists.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • The case of detainee Omar Khadr highlights how President Barack Obama has struggled to carry out a pledge he made immediately after taking office to close the globally unpopular military prison, which he called a recruiting tool for terrorists.

    Durangoherald.com 2009

  • The lack of a full-time head coach, until the week after the season ended, had to put a crimp in recruiting, meaning coach Greg Vetrone has some work to do.

    Northeast Conference 2010

  • Legal offices are struggling with the weight of expansion but the development of professional recruiting is lagging behind.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Legal offices are struggling with the weight of expansion but the development of professional recruiting is lagging behind.

    Legal Education—For What? 2009

  • That's the first lesson I learned in recruiting: Worry about your own guys.

    North Carolina State - Team Notes 2010

  • He was instrumental in recruiting the players who made us successful at Robert Morris.

    Rice names Martelli an assistant basketball coach 2010

  • Although Warburg had declined Krehl's invitation to direct the Physiology Institute, he cared deeply about the development of the new KWImF and played an active role in recruiting scientists for Krehl.

    Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010

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