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Hire

noun

A newly hired employee.

The act of hiring something or someone.

verb

(past & past part. hired; pres. part. hiring)

Engage or hire for work. Synonyms: employ, engage. "How many people has she employed?" Antonym: fire.

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services. Synonyms: charter, lease, rent.

Engage for service under a term of contract. Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take. "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

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"Hire" Quotes from Famous Books

... places in the vicinity of Dijon, ready at a moment's warning to assemble at the point of rendezvous, and with a rush to enter the defile. Immense magazines of wheat, biscuit, and oats had been noiselessly collected in different places. Large sums of specie had been forwarded, to hire the services of every peasant, with his mule, who inhabited the valleys among the mountains. Mechanic shops, as by magic, suddenly rose along the path, well supplied with skillful artisans, to repair ...

— Napoleon Bonaparte • John S. C. Abbott

... nothin' doin' up the State. The Democrats there—always providin' that there is any Democrats there—take to the woods. Supposin' Tammany turned over the campaigns to the Hill men and then held off, what would happen? Why, they would have to hire a shed out in the suburbs of Albany for a headquarters, unless the Democratic National Committee put up for the campaign expenses. Tammany's got the votes and the cash. The Hill crowd's ...

— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt

... Dumpty," said Jim, under his breath, "you won't have to hire anybody to blow your trumpet for you. Sorry I can't stay, old chap, to hear the rest of your interesting and ...

— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt

... the father, "there would be some sense in that; that would be making some use of a Lord's acquaintance, for it would save us coach-hire." ...

— Evelina • Fanny Burney

... safest method to adopt on arriving at the terminus is to hire rickshas of the company at the railway station, by so doing you are saved from being victimised by the coolies, who are about as honest as the Jehus of our own streets. You may employ them for as many hours ...

— In Eastern Seas - The Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 • J. J. Smith

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