recruit: [17] Etymologically, a recruit is something that ‘grows again’. The word’s ultimate ancestor is Latin recrēscere ‘regrow’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘again’ and crēscere ‘grow’ (source of English crescent, increase, etc). This passed into French as recro?tre, whose feminine past participle in the standard language was recrue. In the dialect of northeastern France, however, it was recrute, and it was this, used as a noun meaning ‘new growth’, hence ‘reinforcement of troops’, that gave English recruit. => crescent, croissant, increase
recruit (v.)
1630s, "to strengthen, reinforce," from French recruter (17c.), from recrute "a levy, a recruit" (see recruit (n.)). Sense of "to enlist new soldiers" is attested from 1650s; of student athletes, from 1913. Related: Recruited; recruiting.
recruit (n.)
"military reinforcement, one of a newly raised body of troops," 1640s, from recruit (v)., replacing earlier recrew, recrue; or from obsolete French recrute, alteration of recreue "a supply," recrue "a levy of troops" (late 16c.), Picardy or Hainault dialect variant of recrue "a levy, a recruit," literally "new growth," from Old French recreu (12c.), past participle of recreistre "grow or increase again," from re- "again" (see re-) + creistre "to grow," from Latin crescere "to grow" (see crescent). "The French word first appeared in literary use in gazettes published in Holland, and was disapproved of by French writers in the latter part of the 17th c." [OED]. The French word also is the source of Dutch recruut, German Recrut, Swedish rekryt.
例文
1. Firms are now keen to hold on to the people they recruit .
各社は今、採用された従業員を引き留めたいと急いでいる。
2.He helped to recruit volunteers to go to Pakistan to fight.
パキスタンでのボランティア募集に協力した。
3.The police are trying to recruit more officers from ethnic minorities.
警察機関は少数民族からより多くの新しい警察官を募集しようとしている。
4.This a nationwide campaign to recruit women into trade unions.
女性を労働組合に吸収する全国的な運動である。
5.The country 's first act would be to recruit for the navy.