recruitment.

Obtaining people for a job, organization, study, or other activity.

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Words that belong together

• staff recruitment
• participant recruitment

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Participant recruitment stopped when the planned sample was complete.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.