hire
IPA: hˈaɪɝ
noun
- Payment for the temporary use of something.
- (obsolete) Reward, payment.
- The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
- A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
- (intransitive) To accept employment.
- (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
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Examples of "hire" in Sentences
- He was hired as a staff.
- He hired proxy who could help his work.
- Anyone with lengthiness will not be hired.
- The owners hired white overseers to direct the work.
- Chambers hired architect William Hay to do the restorative work.
- He has the responsibility to hire and lead the staff at the church.
- Kennedy hired Lou Harris, his pollster to work for the Liberals again.
- Apparently, the person is hired by the peddler he hired the day before.
- The demolition work was carried out by unskilled labour hired by the miller.
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