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Someone signed up before they understood the fine print of becoming.
means To recruit is to enlist or sign someone up for a job, army, cause, or team; a recruit is the freshly enlisted person.
from From French recrue, 'a fresh growth' — literally a new sprout of soldiers reinforcing the ranks. That recrue traces back to Latin recrescere, 'to grow again' (re-, 'again,' plus crescere, 'to grow,' the same root that gives us 'crescent' and 'increase'). So the original recruit was vegetation: the army was a body that lost limbs in battle and grew new ones, and you were the spring growth filling the gap.
- latin root
- From recrescere, meaning to grow again
- raw clay
- Drill sergeants exist to break and rebuild them
- basic training
- Designed to strip identity before issuing a new one
- sports trade
- Top high school recruits are scouted before age 16
- the lowest rung
- Outranked by literally everyone in uniform
operation paperclip — us recruited 1,600+ nazi scientists after wwii, led by wernher von braun
ohio state football — urban meyer recruited 31 5-star prospects, won national championship 2014
goldman sachs analyst program — recruits 1,000+ college graduates annually into investment banking pipeline