Recruit and Select

Recruit

Recruit verb - To provide with a paying job.

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Select and recruit are semantically related. in gather resources topic. In some cases you can use "Select" instead a verb "Recruit".

Select verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.

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Recruit and select are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Recruit" instead a verb "Select".

character	recruit character	select character
unit	recruit unit	select unit
type	recruit type	select type
team	recruit team	select team
Other words: way, characters, monster, units, students, survivors, prisoners.

You're presented with a Dialogue Tree; you select "I'm the new recruit." He laughs and notes you're pitifully out of shape for the job, then shoos you away.

Source: NPC Amnesia
It also subverts Easier Than Easy (assuming Recruit equates to Very Easy, which is implied at the difficulty select screen which describes it as "casual") because even on Recruit, you will die.

Source: Video Game / Modern Warfare
Renautas's ultimate plan is to allow the apocalypse to happen, capture or recruit as many specials as possible, use their powers to send select people and resources in the future, and recolonize the planet under their iron grip while they let the present world burn.

Source: Series / Heroes Reborn (2015)

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