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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