Hire vs. Recruit — What's the Difference?

Obtain the temporary use of (something) for an agreed payment

To enlist (persons) in military service.

Employ (someone) for wages

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

The action of hiring someone or something

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

A person who is hired; an employee

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

To engage the services of (a person) for a fee; employ

To enlist personnel in a military force.

To engage the temporary use of for a fee; rent

To recruit new employees, members, or students.

To grant the services of or the temporary use of for a fee

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

To obtain work

A new member of an organization.

The act of hiring.

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.

The condition or fact of being hired.

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

Payment for services; wages.

A hired worker

Payment for the use of something.

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

(Informal) One who is hired

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

Payment for the temporary use of something.

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

(obsolete) Reward, payment.

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

The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

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

A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

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

(transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

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

(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

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.

(transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.

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

(transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.

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.

(intransitive) To accept employment.

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

(transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job

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

The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement.

A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward.

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

To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.

A recently enlisted soldier

To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.

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

To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; - now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.

Register formally as a participant or member;

Engage or hire for work;

Seek to employ;

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military;

Engage for service under a term of contract;