Hire
['haɪə] or ['haɪɚ]
Definition
(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?'.
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Definition
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(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wages, stipend, allowance, salary, pay, remuneration.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Engage, commission, employ, rent
ANT:Buy, purchase
Editor: Myra
Definition
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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Examples
- Do you think you can hire a woman like Gudrun Brangwen with money? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You'll hire that of me, I suppose? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Well, Chloe, who do you propose that we should hire out? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was so that Crawley and his wife preferred to hire their house. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We found a house to hire near the market, and took it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- 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? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They had the hardihood to march into the Piraeus in the early dusk and hire a carriage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If we add hired servants the State will be complete. Plato. The Republic.
- She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Caddy keeps her own little carriage now instead of hiring one, and lives full two miles further westward than Newman Street. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The discussions ended in our hiring for him, by the month, a neat little furnished lodging in a quiet old house near Queen Square. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She sometimes hires a servant, and sends him off the next day for the most absurd reasons: such as, 'Thomas! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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