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recruitment (s) (noun), recruitments (pl)
1. The enlistment of people for the military, or for a job, or a cause etc.
2. In medicine, during the testing of hearing, the gradual increase to a maximum in a reflex when a stimulus of unaltered intensity is prolonged: In audiology, an abnormal recruitment of loudness caused by a very slight increase in sound strength of the acoustic stimulus in an ear with a sensory hearing loss compared with that of a normal ear.

From French, recrutement, "increase"; from Latin re-cresco , from -cretus, "to grow again" or recru, "new growth".

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recruitment (s) (noun), recruitments (pl)
A special form of assembly in which members of a society are directed to some place where work is required: Sam read that a recruitment was a kind of gathering of members of a population where they were told to go to a certain place where work was required.
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alarm-recruitment system (s) (noun), alarm-recruitment systems (pl)
A communication system that rallies nest mates to some particular place to aid in the defense of the colony: One example of an alarm-recruitment system is the odor trail method of lower termites, which is used to recruit colony members to the vicinity of intruders and breaks in the nest wall.

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recruitment trail (s) (noun), recruitment trails (pl)
An odor trail laid by scout workers: A recruitment trail is used to round up nest mates to a food find, a desirable new nest site, a breach in the nest wall, or some other place where the assistance of many workers is needed.
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