recruited
- 1Simple past and past participle of recruit.
The army recruited thousands of volunteers during the war.
He was recruited straight out of college by a research lab.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty: simple past (the club recruited two players) and, after have or be, the perfect and passive (they were recruited in spring). The intransitive uses of recruit change what the participle can do. A biologist writes that young fish recruited into the population, and an older writer that an invalid recruited at the seaside. Neither has a passive, whereas cells recruited to a wound are on the receiving end.
recruited is a form of recruit
recruit, verb: To enroll or enlist new members, employees, or players on behalf of a company, organization, team, or the military. Full entry
- Forms
- recruitrecruits he/she/itrecruiting -ing formrecruited past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- recruit → recruited: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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