hiring-fair

noun

(formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired

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He showed up for a “one-stop” hiring fair hosted by Customs and Border Protection in Dallas in February 2008.

We are brought on to a day in February, on which was held the yearly statute or hiring fair in the county-town of Casterbridge.

There are good monthly stock fairs and a hiring fair in May.

The young and active get the preference and the old have to take a lower fee at each hiring fair to secure employment.

It was the chief hiring fair of the year, and differed quite from the market of a few days earlier.

One of the old institutions which still remain in the Cotswolds is the annual "mop," or hiring fair.

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