hire

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages, pay for service”), from Proto-Germanic *hūzijō (“hire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kūs- (“price, hire”). Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“hire”), Low German Hüre (“hire”), German Heuer (“hire”), Danish hyre (“hire”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

hire (plural hires)

  1. Payment for the temporary use of something.
    The sign offered pedalos on hire.
  2. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
      I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
  3. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
    When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
  4. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
    We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.

Synonyms [edit]

Translations [edit]

the state of being hired, or having a job; employment
a person who has been hired

Verb [edit]

hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)

  1. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
    We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
  2. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
    The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
  3. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
    They hired themselves out as day laborers.
    They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
  4. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
    After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
  5. (intransitive) To accept employment
    They hired out as day laborers.

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Derived terms [edit]

Terms derived from hire (verb)

Translations [edit]

to obtain the services of in return for fixed payment
to employ
to exchange the services of for remuneration
to accomplish by paying for services
to accept employment
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Anagrams [edit]

Basque [edit]

Pronoun [edit]

hire

  1. yours

Japanese [edit]

Romanization [edit]

hire

  1. See ひれ

Middle English [edit]

Pronoun [edit]

hire

  1. Alternative form of hir.

Old English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈhire/

Pronoun [edit]

hire

  1. Genitive of hēo
  2. Dative of hēo
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