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English word

recruit

B2Frequent NGSL-3
UK /rɪˈkruːt/US /rɪˈkruːt/
noun

a person who has recently joined the armed forces or the police

verb

to find new people to join a company, an organization, the armed forces, etc.

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And one of the reasons why I'm giving this speech today is because I'm recruiting.

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so they would send money to a friend and essentially recruit that friend into the network, and so you had this exponential growth: the more customers you had, the faster it grew.

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