recruit

re-,再，重新，-cru,生长，成长，词源同 crescent,crew.引申词义吸收，招募新成员。

recruit

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 recroître, 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.

1. Firms are now keen to hold on to the people they recruit.

各公司现在都急切地想要留住招聘来的员工。

2. He helped to recruit volunteers to go to Pakistan to fight.

他协助招募志愿者到巴基斯坦打仗。

3. The police are trying to recruit more officers from ethnic minorities.

警察机关正试图从少数民族中征募更多的新警员。

4. This is a nationwide campaign to recruit women into trade unions.

这是一次吸收妇女参加工会的全国性运动.

5. The country's first act would be to recruit for the navy.

国家的第一个行动是为海军征募新兵.