A special form of assembly in which members of a society are directed to some place where work is required: Sam read that a recruitment was a kind of gathering of members of a population where they were told to go to a certain place where work was required.

A communication system that rallies nest mates to some particular place to aid in the defense of the colony: One example of an alarm-recruitment system is the odor trail method of lower termites, which is used to recruit colony members to the vicinity of intruders and breaks in the nest wall.

An odor trail laid by scout workers: A recruitment trail is used to round up nest mates to a food find, a desirable new nest site, a breach in the nest wall, or some other place where the assistance of many workers is needed.