Related Searches
on Ask.com
Synonyms
hire
- 8 dictionary resultshire
[hahyuh
r] 
verb, hired, hir⋅ing, noun, adjective –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. |
–adjective
—Verb phrases| 7. | British. available for hire; rental: a hire car. |
| 8. | hire on, to obtain employment; take a job: They hired on as wranglers with the rodeo. |
| 9. | hire 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:
bef. 1000; (v.) ME hiren, OE hȳrian (c. D huren, LG hüren, OFris hēra); (n.) ME; OE hȳr; c. D huur, LG hüre (whence D hyre, Sw hyra, G Heuer), Fris hēre
bef. 1000; (v.) ME hiren, OE hȳrian (c. D huren, LG hüren, OFris hēra); (n.) ME; OE hȳr; c. D huur, LG hüre (whence D hyre, Sw hyra, G Heuer), Fris hēre
Related forms:
hir⋅ee, noun
hirer, noun
Synonyms:
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.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
|
Link To hire
| hire (hīr) v. hired, hir·ing, hires v. tr.
To obtain work: She hired on as a deck hand. He hired out as a photographer. n.
[Middle English hiren, from Old English hȳrian.] hir'a·ble, hire'a·ble adj., hir'er n. |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Hire
Hire\ (h[~e]r), pron. [Obs.] See Here, pron. --Chaucer.Hire
Hire\ (h[imac]r), n. [OE. hire, hure, AS. h[=y]r; akin to D. huur, G. heuer, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra.]1. The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. The laborer is worthy of his hire. --Luke x. 7. 2. (Law.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. --Story. Syn: Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.Hire
Hire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hired (h[imac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hiring.] [OE. hiren, huren, AS. h[=y]rian; akin to D. huren, G. heuern, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra. See Hire, n.]1. To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money. 2. To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate. 3. To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time. They . . . have hired out themselves for bread. --1 Sam. ii. 5.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Language Translation for : hire
Spanish:
alquilar,
German:
mieten,
Japanese:
賃借りする
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").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Main Entry: hire
Function: noun
1 : payment for the temporary use of something or for labor or services
2 a : the act or an instance of hiring
3 : one who is hired
Main Entry: hire
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: hired; hir·ing
transitive verb 1 : to engage the personal services of or the temporary use of for a fixed sum
2 : to grant the personal services of or the temporary use of intransitive verb : to take employment —hir·er noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
