募集中
解説 Definition
recruiting は recruit（募集する、採用する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。人を仕事や活動に加えるために募っている、または採用活動をしていることを表します。
Recruiting means actively seeking and selecting people to join a company, organization, team, or activity. It is the present participle or gerund form of recruit and can describe hiring or membership-building efforts currently taking place.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
recruiting は recruit に -ing をそのまま付けた形で、綴りは recruit → recruiting、発音は /rɪˈkruː.tɪŋ/ です。recruit staff「職員を募集する」、recruit members「会員を募る」のように、組織へ新しい人を加えて人数を補う場面と結び付けて覚えます。
Recruiting comes from recruit plus -ing, with no spelling change: recruit → recruiting, pronounced /rɪˈkruː.tɪŋ/. Think of an organization trying to add people to its numbers. A store may be recruiting staff, a company may be recruiting engineers, and a club may be recruiting new members. The word covers the process of attracting or seeking suitable people and may include selection. In a continuous verb phrase, The company is recruiting emphasizes current activity; as a gerund, Recruiting takes time names the activity itself. Hiring is narrower because it focuses on giving someone a job.
例文
The store is recruiting new staff.
その店は新しいスタッフを募集しています。
Our club is recruiting members this week.
私たちのクラブは今週、会員を募集しています。
The company is recruiting engineers in Tokyo.
その会社は東京でエンジニアを募集しています。
recruiting の類義語・関連語
recruiting の語源・成り立ち Etymology
recruiting は recruit「補充する・採用する」の -ing 形で、recruit はフランス語 recruter を経て、ラテン語 recrescere「再び成長する」に由来します。re-「再び」＋ crescere「成長する」なので、「人数をまた増やす」感覚があり、increase や crescent が近縁です。
Recruit came into English through French recruter. Its history is associated with restoring or increasing a group’s strength by adding new people, especially soldiers. The deeper formation is linked to a Romance descendant of Latin recrescere, “to grow again,” combining re-, “again,” with crescere, “to grow.” Recruiting is the regular -ing form and preserves the idea of increasing an organization’s numbers.
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