misrecruit

verb

Etymology

From mis- + recruit.

Definitions

  1. To recruit someone who is inappropriate.

    • Explain to the remaining respondents that the person belonged in a different group, was misrecruited, or was clearly unhappy with the research.
    • Perhaps people have been misrecruited.
  2. Someone who has been misrecruited.

    • This pattern may be appropriate […] If the participant is a misrecruit and there is no way to adjust the session to get feedback from her.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misrecruit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA