recruiting sergeant

collocation in English

meaningsofrecruitandsergeant

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recruit
noun[C]
uk
/rɪˈkruːt/us
/rɪˈkruːt/
a new member of an organization, especially ...
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sergeant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɑː.dʒənt/us
/ˈsɑːr.dʒənt/
a soldier of ...
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(Definition ofrecruitandsergeantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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From the outset, then, the army is presented in a negative light, and its representative, therecruitingsergeant, as dishonest.
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Sometimes, that behaviour acts as arecruitingsergeantfor people to get a criminal record.
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The biggestrecruitingsergeantof all has been indecision, and the failure to take action to show that such resolve matters.
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Anybody who claims that unemployment as such is arecruitingsergeantwill be in great difficulty in proving it.
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I am very glad that there is no mass unemployment which can be used as arecruitingsergeantto man those particular industries.
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Unemployment is a goodrecruitingsergeant, and it would not be difficult to find the men to man those units.
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I am not willing to be arecruitingsergeantto ask our people to go where they are not welcome.
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The realrecruitingsergeantof the mining industry is the miner himself.
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The trouble is a nice little war going on somewhere is a goodrecruitingsergeant.
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After all it affects morale, the bestrecruitingsergeant.
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She has said that she has no intention of acting as arecruitingsergeantfor the new force.
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So we now have a conciliation service that is seen by many to be operating as arecruitingsergeantfor the big battalion trade unions.
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The crude statement that hunger was therecruitingsergeantbefore the war had an element of truth in it, but it was not wholly true.
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We regard him as the bestrecruitingsergeantthat we have ever had.
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Those were deliberate artifices evolved a few years ago with a view to their acting as arecruitingsergeantamong the unemployed of this country.
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We no longer have unemployment as arecruitingsergeant.
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The increase of danger, the probabilities of having to go and fight and die, have been the greatrecruitingsergeantthis year among our youth.
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When a recruit goes to arecruitingsergeant, that recruit may be taken on there and then.
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The bestrecruitingsergeant, in my judgment, both for officers and other ranks, is the contented ex-soldier.
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If there is one rule of recruitment for the services it is that unemployment is the bestrecruitingsergeant.
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