recruit

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
recruit/rɪˈkruːt/

▶verb enlist (someone) in the armed forces.

■ enrol (someone) as a member or worker in an organization.

■ informal persuade to do or help with something.

▶noun a newly recruited person.

– derivatives
recruitable adjective,
recruiter noun.

– origin C17: from obs. Fr. dial. recrute, based on L. recrescere ‘grow again’.