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hire

hire

49 2.9
A person who has recently started working for a company
  • noun
  • /haɪər/
translation icon : nuevo empleado
  • Alicia Zhou is our latest hire out of Cornell.
  • a new hire
  • recent hires
  • recruit new hires

You need to realise and maybe even line up your next hire before you fire.

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Examples

  • Who's the new hire?

  • We are delighted with the quality of our new hires, but in two instances, the search took two years.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The first hire I made was operations.

  • This woman, this woman will be the most important person you ever hire in your business.

  • Finally, after more than a month, another new hire, Joe, joined our crew.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I love that I teach air traffic control to new hires off the street.

  • So a lot of times that first hire doesn't work out.

  • Alicia Zhou is our latest hire out of Cornell.

  • The next morning, Javier followed the other new hires into the staff offices underneath the central lodge.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • We reached out to potential hires through uncommon channels.

Antonyms

274 1.7

Without work and looking for a job

Compounds

2 9.1

A person who is paid to kill someone with a gun

1 2.7

A car you rent to use for a short time

5.9

To pay for something by small regular payments while you use it until you own it

How Near

leaver
2 5.8
short timer
  • US
1 7.2
jobholder
1 2.7
hire
49 2.9

Surface Forms

hire singular
hires plural

Etymology

Hire comes from an old idea of 'payment', like the word wage, so a hire as a person is someone you pay to work for your company.