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Enroll vs. Recruit — What's the Difference?

Enroll vs. Recruit — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Enroll and Recruit

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Enroll

To enter or register in a roll, list, or record
Enrolled the child in kindergarten.
Enroll the minutes of the meeting.

Recruit

To enlist (persons) in military service.

Enroll

To roll or wrap up.

Recruit

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

Enroll

To write or print a final copy of; engross.
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Recruit

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

Enroll

To place one's name on a roll or register; sign up
We enrolled in the army.

Recruit

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

Enroll

(transitive) To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list

Recruit

To enlist personnel in a military force.

Enroll

(transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
They were eager to enroll new recruits.

Recruit

To recruit new employees, members, or students.

Enroll

(intransitive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?

Recruit

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

Enroll

To envelop; to enwrap.

Recruit

A new member of an organization.

Enroll

To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.
An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling.
All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.

Recruit

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.

Enroll

To envelop; to inwrap; to involve.

Recruit

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

Enroll

Register formally as a participant or member;
The party recruited many new members

Recruit

A hired worker
These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews

Recruit

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

Recruit

To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products

Recruit

To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
The army was recruited for a campaign
They were looking to recruit two thousand troops for battle

Recruit

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

Recruit

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

Recruit

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

Recruit

To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
Go to the country to recruit.

Recruit

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.
Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color.

Recruit

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

Recruit

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.

Recruit

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

Recruit

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

Recruit

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement.
The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers.

Recruit

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

Recruit

A recently enlisted soldier

Recruit

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

Recruit

Register formally as a participant or member;
The party recruited many new members

Recruit

Seek to employ;
The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants

Recruit

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military;
Raise an army
Recruit new soldiers

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