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hire
[ hahyuhr ]
verb (used with object)
- to engage the services of (someone) for wages or other payment:
The company hired three new engineers in the last quarter.
Synonyms: employ
- to engage the temporary use of at a set price; rent:
We hired a limousine to get us to the wedding in style.
Synonyms: lease
noun
- the act of hiring.
- the state or condition of being hired.
- the price or compensation paid or contracted to be paid for the temporary use of something or for personal services or labor; pay:
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
Synonyms: remuneration, salary, wages, stipend, rental
- Informal. a person hired or to be hired:
Most of our new hires are college-educated.
adjective
- British. available for hire; rental:
a hire car.
verb phrase
- to offer or exchange one's services for payment:
He hired himself out as a handyman.
- to obtain employment; take a job:
They hired on as wranglers with the rodeo.
hire
/ ˈhaɪə /
verb
- to acquire the temporary use of (a thing) or the services of (a person) in exchange for payment
- to employ (a person) for wages
- often foll by out to provide (something) or the services of (oneself or others) for an agreed payment, usually for an agreed period
- trfoll byout to pay independent contractors for (work to be done)
noun
- the act of hiring or the state of being hired
- ( as modifier )
a hire car
- the price paid or payable for a person's services or the temporary use of something
- ( as modifier )
the hire charge
- for hire or on hireavailable for service or temporary use in exchange for payment
Derived Forms
- ˈhirable, adjective
- ˈhirer, noun
Other Words From
- hir·ee [hahy, uh, r-, ee], noun
- hir·er noun
- out·hire verb (used with object) outhired outhiring
- pre·hir·ing adjective
- re·hire verb rehired rehiring noun
- un·hired adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of hire1
Word History and Origins
Origin of hire1
Idioms and Phrases
- for hire, available for use or service in exchange for payment. Also on hire.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
A number of companies across the country, including Glassdoor, StubHub, Funding Circle, Yelp, Checkr and even the National Institutes of Health, either paused hiring or canceled their internship programs altogether.
Since March, it’s added over 120 hires globally, 15% of those have been in London and Singapore.
Communications software maker Slack has hired a new chief people officer.
Now Grant has joined the chorus of work and management experts who are betting on technology as a way to improve fairness in hiring.
Imagine hiring someone without being properly vetted and now this person comes in and has to work three times as hard to be accepted by the community.
Like any service for hire, it is extremely important for the traffickers to provide a reputable service, criminal as it is.
Grimm has even been actively trying hire staff members for his office in recent weeks after several former aides deserted him.
The assistant manager at the A&F store had found Elauf qualified for the position and was apparently going to hire her.
They hire other people to write their books for them, whether memoir or fiction.
At the end of his internship, the Davis County School District decided to hire him.
One who uses another's automobile without consent or knowledge of the owner, may be liable to pay a reasonable hire therefor.
Should he hire a horse and kill the animal by rash driving, he would be liable for its value.
Some landlords hire agents to attend to their property and to the collection of rents.
Shall I sit by the roadside and ask every man who passes by if he wants to hire himself out 'on shares'?
The owner of the mules used on this journey resides here, and here, likewise, the money for their hire is paid.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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