Synonyms:
recruit, military_recruit
Meaning: a recently enlisted soldier
Synonyms:
recruit, enlistee
Meaning: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit
Meaning: register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members"
Synonyms:
recruit
Meaning: seek to employ; "The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants"
Synonyms:
recruit, levy, raise
Meaning: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
Usage examples
"Yes, to recruit for my command.
Served to recruit his own jaded ideas
“That fella belong you?” the captain asked the recruit, referring to the thief.
The afternoon on which Montraville had visited her she had found herself languid and fatigued, and after making a very slight dinner had lain down to endeavour to recruit her exhausted spirits, and, contrary to her expectations, had fallen asleep.
“Then why in Jericho do you let him take the box?” the captain demanded indignantly. Quoth the recruit, “Me speak along him, say bokkis he stop, that fella he cross along me”—which was the recruit’s way of saying that the other man would murder him.
"From those letters we learned that his name was Calhoun Pennington, that he was a lieutenant in the command of Captain John H. Morgan, a gentleman who has given us considerable trouble, and may give us more, and that he was on his way back to Kentucky to recruit for Morgan's command."