Employ vs. Recruit — What's the Difference?

Give work to (someone) and pay them for it

To enlist (persons) in military service.

Make use of

To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.

The state of being employed for wages or a salary

To hire or enroll, or seek to hire or enroll (new employees, members, or students).

To provide work to (someone) for pay

To renew or restore (health or vitality, for example).

To engage the attention or activity of; occupy

To enlist personnel in a military force.

To put (something) to use or service

To recruit new employees, members, or students.

To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose

A newly engaged member of a military force, especially one of the lowest rank or grade.

The state of being employed

A new member of an organization.

(Archaic) An occupation.

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.

The state of being an employee; employment.

A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

(obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

A hired worker

(obsolete) Occupation.

A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.

To hire (somebody for work or a job).

To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.

To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).

To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster

To make busy.

(archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.

To inclose; to infold.

To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.

To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; - often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.

(biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.

To occupy; as, to employ time in study.

To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.

That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

The state of being employed or having a job;

Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

Put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;

To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.

Engage or hire for work;

To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement.

Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

A recently enlisted soldier

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

Register formally as a participant or member;

Seek to employ;

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military;