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Definition of recruit : 1. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.
2. Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
3. Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
4. To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
5. To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.
6. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
7. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.

Synonyms:

greenhorn, trainee, call up, go into, cashier, sailor, GI Joe, branch, participate, beginner, levy, fledgling, enrol, fire, call forth, grow, neophyte, nurture, scratch, recuperate, airman, reanimate, inscribe, new woman, turn to, selectee, 4-F, put down, punk, employ, elevate, baby, boot, AWOL, appoint, engage, raise, Green Beret, put up, sign, beg, arriviste, GI, associate, foot soldier, insert, call in a favor, go in, tenderfoot, lift, write in code, upraise, farm, code, resurrect, prove, hire, inductee, parent, promote, colt, reach out to, rear, tyro, confirm, engrave, figure, conjure up, put forward, evoke, heighten, kick upstairs, confederate, commando, abecedarian, heal, restore, repossess, encrypt, virgin, advance, infix, enter, retrieve, freshman, regain, introduce, soldier, embark, cure, elicit, cub, set up, buy out, retain, raw recruit, get up, provoke, novitiate, call down, upgrade, serviceman, charter member, autograph, accede, impose, produce, come running, kindle, arouse, bring up, sign on, get into, come in, take on, core, be restored, look to, enlistee, conscription, rook, Johnny Raw, erect, get in, volunteer, cipher, novice, enkindle, grave, alumnus, encipher, commissioner, academician, be cured _or_ healed, draftee, greenie, invoke, approach, military recruit, newcomer, apprentice, record, resume, enlisted person, enlist, enroll, babe, leaven, run to, move into, rookie, crew, stir, bombardier, recover, enhance, conjure, conscript, marine, grenadier, newbie, airwoman, cannon fodder, commission, cypher

Usage examples:

• They might have reached Astoria almost as soon as Mr. M'Kenzie, but they had passed from eight to ten days in the midst of a plain, among some friendly Indians, as well to recruit their strength, as to make search for two of the party, who had been lost in the woods. - "Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific", Gabriel Franchere.
• The judge must have run as fast as his legs would carry him; for, in about ten minutes, he was back again, with a diplomatic recruit. - "The Monikins", J. Fenimore Cooper.
• They would have the dog- meat to recruit their strength. - "The Silent Places", Steward Edward White.