Hiring
['haiəriŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hire
Edited by Elise
Examples
- 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.
Editor: Madge