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Where does “recruitment” come from?

Recruitment comes from English recruit, derived from French recruter and French recrue, ultimately from Latin mens meaning "mind" via the Proto-Indo-European root men-.

recruitment (English): The process or art of finding candidates for a...

Definitions

  1. The process or art of finding candidates for a...

Ancestry of “recruitment”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrecruitA supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a...
2Frenchrecruterto recruit
3GermanRekrutrecruit; A soldier of the lowest rank in the...
4Frenchrecreute—
5Frenchrecruerecruit
6Old Frenchrecreu—
7Old Frenchrecreistre—

Words derived from “recruitment”

  • postrecruitment
  • prerecruitment
  • overrecruitment
  • underrecruitment
  • e-recruitment
Every word from Old French recreistre →