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Recruit vs Reduce - What's the difference?

recruit | reduce |

As verbs the difference between recruit and reduce

is that recruit is to enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc while reduce is to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

As a noun recruit

is a supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.

recruit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
  • A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
  • A hired worker
  • These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews
  • (biology, ecology) A new member of a certain population, usually referring to a juvenile.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc.
  • We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products
  • To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
  • the army was recruited for a campaign .
    they were looking to recruit two thousand troops for battle
  • (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in
  • Food recruits''' the flesh; fresh air and exercise '''recruit the spirits.
  • * Glanvill
  • Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour.
  • (dated) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like
  • Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
    Go to the country to recruit .

    reduce

    English

    Verb

  • To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
  • * to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
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  • To lose weight.
  • To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
  • * to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
  • * An ancient but reduced family. --.
  • * Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --.
  • * Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- .
  • * Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . --.
  • *
  • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
  • To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
  • * to reduce a province or a fort
  • To bring to an inferior state or condition.
  • * to reduce a city to ashes
  • (cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
  • (chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
  • (metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
  • (mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
  • (legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
  • * It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
  • (medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
  • (military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
  • Synonyms

    * (to bring down) cut, decrease, lower

    Antonyms

    * (to bring down) increase

    See also

    * reducing agent

    References

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