Hire

['haɪə] or ['haɪɚ]

解释:

(noun.) the act of hiring something or someone; 'he signed up for a week's car hire'.

(noun.) a newly hired employee; 'the new hires need special training'.

(verb.) engage or hire for work; 'They hired two new secretaries in the department'; 'How many people has she employed?'.

校对:迈克尔--From WordNet

解释:

(pron.) See Here, pron.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

编辑:兰尼

同义词及近义词：

n. Wages, stipend, allowance, salary, pay, remuneration.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Engage, commission, employ, rent

ANT:Buy, purchase

校对:迈拉

解释:

n. wages for service: the price paid for the use of anything.—v.t. to procure the use or service of at a price: to engage for wages: to grant temporary use of for compensation: to bribe.—adj. Hire′able.—ns. Hire′ling a hired servant: a mercenary: a prostitute (also adj.); Hir′er; Hire′-sys′tem a system by which a hired article becomes the property of the hirer after a stipulated number of payments; Hir′ing the contract of hiring—bailment for hire (in Scotland location): a fair or market where servants are engaged.—On hire for hiring.

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