Definition of recruited:
(v) :
To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
(n) :
A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
(n) :
A hired worker
(v) :
To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
(n) :
(biology, ecology) A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
(v) :
(biology, intransitive) To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.