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hire out
Idioms and Phrases
Obtain work; also, grant the services or temporary use of for a fee, as in He hired out as a cook , or They hired out the cottage for the summer . [Second half of 1700s]Example Sentences
However they may hire out the usufruct of their voices, they never will part with the fee and inheritance.
As soon as I was able to travel, my master sent me with you into the town to hire out.
Well, what did that young rascal do but grow a beard and hire out as a waiter in the Magnolia Hotel.
"You certainly missed the biggest thing of your life when you didn't hire out to old Noah," he told Toby.
"I had obliged to find me a place whar I could hire out them chaps," the miserable old man before him went on, garrulously.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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