Avoid and Recruit

Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

Recruit is an antonym for avoid.

Recruit

Recruit verb - To provide with a paying job.

Avoid is an antonym for recruit in gather resources topic.

Common collocations

people avoid people recruit people
time avoid time recruit time
anyone avoid anyone recruit anyone
humans avoid humans recruit humans
Other words: enemies.

Both words in one sentence

  • In Detective Conan, Conan frequently has to recruit others to play his 17-year-old self, Shinichi, to avoid suspicion by Ran.
  • In the case of Spiral you must defeat her once in Scenario 1, then avoid killing her in the second battle, so you can recruit her in Scenario 2.
  • White Mask of Doom Soul Eater - Lord Death had a simple skull-shaped mask he made to deliberately avoid looking scary to the small children he wanted to recruit to his school.
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