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verb (used with object)
1.
to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
2.
to engage the temporary use of at a set price; rent: to hire a limousine.
noun
3.
the act of hiring.
4.
the state or condition of being hired.
5.
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.
6.
Informal. a person hired or to be hired: Most of our new hires are college-educated.
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Hire
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adjective
Verb phrases7.
British. available for hire; rental: a hire car.
8.
9.
Idiomhire out, to offer or exchange one's services for payment: He hired himself out as a handyman.
10.
for hire, available for use or service in exchange for payment. Also, on hire.
Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English hiren, Old English hȳrian (cognate with Dutch huren, Low German hüren, Old Frisian hēra); (noun) Middle English; Old English hȳr; cognate with Dutch huur, Low German hüre (whence Dutch hyre, Swedish hyra, German Heuer), Frisian hēre
before 1000; (v.) Middle English hiren, Old English hȳrian (cognate with Dutch huren, Low German hüren, Old Frisian hēra); (noun) Middle English; Old English hȳr; cognate with Dutch huur, Low German hüre (whence Dutch hyre, Swedish hyra, German Heuer), Frisian hēre
Related forms
hir·ee, noun
hir·er, noun
out·hire, verb (used with object), out·hired, out·hir·ing.
pre·hir·ing, adjective
re·hire, verb, re·hired, re·hir·ing, noun
EXPANDun·hired, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
1. employ. 2. lease. Hire, charter, rent refer to paying money for the use of something. Hire is a general word, most commonly applied to paying money for labor or services, but is also used in reference to paying for the temporary use of automobiles (usually with a chauffeur), halls, etc.; in New England, it is used in speaking of borrowing money on which interest is to be paid (to distinguish from borrowing from a friend, who would not accept any interest): to hire a gardener, a delivery truck, a hall for a convention. Charter formerly meant to pay for the use of a vessel, but is now applied with increasing frequency to leasing any conveyance for the use of a group: to charter a boat, a bus, a plane. Rent is used in the latter sense, also, but is usually applied to paying a set sum once or at regular intervals for the use of a dwelling, room, personal effects, an automobile (which one drives oneself), etc.: to rent a business building. 5. rent, rental; stipend, wages, salary.
1. employ. 2. lease. Hire, charter, rent refer to paying money for the use of something. Hire is a general word, most commonly applied to paying money for labor or services, but is also used in reference to paying for the temporary use of automobiles (usually with a chauffeur), halls, etc.; in New England, it is used in speaking of borrowing money on which interest is to be paid (to distinguish from borrowing from a friend, who would not accept any interest): to hire a gardener, a delivery truck, a hall for a convention. Charter formerly meant to pay for the use of a vessel, but is now applied with increasing frequency to leasing any conveyance for the use of a group: to charter a boat, a bus, a plane. Rent is used in the latter sense, also, but is usually applied to paying a set sum once or at regular intervals for the use of a dwelling, room, personal effects, an automobile (which one drives oneself), etc.: to rent a business building. 5. rent, rental; stipend, wages, salary.
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Example Sentences
- Government incentives for companies to hire unemployed workers have met with limited success.
- It also seems to me that would be expecting quite a bit from a new hire.
- It is for the best for the students that they didn't hire me and ask me to teach paleontology.
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Word Origin & History
hire
O.E. hyrian "pay for service, employ for wages, engage," from P.Gmc. *khurja (cf. Dan. hyre, O.Fris. hera, Du. huren, Ger. heuern "to hire, rent").
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