Hire
['haɪə] or ['haɪɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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?'.
校對:迈克尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:兰尼
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Wages, stipend, allowance, salary, pay, remuneration.
本杰明錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Engage, commission, employ, rent
ANT:Buy, purchase
校對:迈拉
解釋/意思:
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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例句/造句/用法:
- Do you think you can hire a woman like Gudrun Brangwen with money? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You'll hire that of me, I suppose? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Well, Chloe, who do you propose that we should hire out? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was so that Crawley and his wife preferred to hire their house. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We found a house to hire near the market, and took it. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- You would find it difficult, I dare say, just now, in the middle of a very late hay harvest, to hire a horse and cart? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- They had the hardihood to march into the Piraeus in the early dusk and hire a carriage. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He had hired a lodging for the present in Covent Garden, and he took the nearest way to that quarter, by Snow Hill and Holborn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- If we add hired servants the State will be complete. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Caddy keeps her own little carriage now instead of hiring one, and lives full two miles further westward than Newman Street. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And he advocated a national army only because he saw the Italian method of carrying on war by hiring bands of foreign mercenaries was a hopeless one. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The discussions ended in our hiring for him, by the month, a neat little furnished lodging in a quiet old house near Queen Square. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She sometimes hires a servant, and sends him off the next day for the most absurd reasons: such as, 'Thomas! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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