RECRUITING Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

recruiting

verb

present participle of recruit

as in hiring

to provide with a paying job thousands of recent immigrants were recruited to build the nation's rail system

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Recent Examples of recruiting The company is currently recruiting for seasonal full- and part-time roles across its stores and distribution centers. — David Moin, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 Hospitality, retail and tech are recruiting people who’ve already solved the problem banks are trying to solve, just in a different building. — Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 That reflects the high-stakes world of recruiting elite high school players these days. — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The 30-second teaser sees Jackson hustling around town, making money and recruiting his team of crooks. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2026 Hosted by comedian and cerebral palsy advocate Tina Friml, the ceremony took place at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, combining humor with pointed calls for the film and television industry to invest more in recruiting disabled talent. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 The Houthis had also been forcibly recruiting large numbers of children and Ethiopian migrants, using them as human shields, spies and for dangerous mine-planting. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 15 Oct. 2026 Emory's investments support recruiting and retaining AI experts, health care innovation and applications in medicine, business, law, the humanities and ethics. — Leondra Head, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Even recruiting sites have a broad range, from around $50,000 to above $200,000. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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Fielder has made a career out of constructing elaborate social experiments, like building exact replicas of people’s homes and hiring actors to impersonate their loved ones on The Rehearsal.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026
That would begin the process of hiring an executive director, developing operational procedures and recruiting mental health professionals and other responders.

— Chevall Pryce, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2026

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These are basically less privileged neighborhoods where the government is meant to show a greater focus on education by employing more teachers and so on.

— Elektra Kotsoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Ukraine has gotten very good at drone warfare, employing these little robots both in offensive and defensive capacities.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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