RECRUITMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recruitment mean? 

• RECRUITMENT (noun)
  The noun RECRUITMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

  Familiarity information: RECRUITMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECRUITMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

enlisting; recruitment

Hypernyms ("recruitment" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Derivation:

recruit (cause to assemble or enlist in the military)

recruit (seek to employ)

 Context examples 

The recruitment of leukocytes may contribute to tumor-associated leukocyte infiltration and to the antiviral state against HIV infection.

(CCL8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes C-C chemokine receptor type 1 protein, is involved in signal transduction and recruitment of effector immune cells to the site of inflammation.

(CCR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine A3 protein, is involved in the acute inflammatory recruitment and activation of polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

(CCL3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes chemokine-binding protein 2, is involved in the recruitment of effector immune cells to sites of inflammation.

(CCBP2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 8, plays a role in the modulation of both caspase activity, and apoptosis.

(CARD8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 8 (431 aa, ~49 kDa) is encoded by the human CARD8 gene.

(Caspase Recruitment Domain-Containing Protein 8, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in B-cell differentiation, maturation, and the recruitment of cells during inflammatory responses.

(CCR6 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in thymocyte recruitment and development.

(CCR9 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This pathway is initiated through recruitment and activation of Shc, which leads to ras activation through Grb-2 and Sos-1.

(Nerve Growth Factor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Nurf301 also interacts with sequence-specific transcription factors, providing a basis for targeted recruitment of the NURF complex to specific genes.

(NURF, NCI Thesaurus)