hire
- noun
- /haɪər/
- 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.
- You need to realise and maybe even line up your next hire before you fire.
- He's our DEI hire because we like female lesbians.
- The first hire I made was operations.
- They are our first hire moving into the comic book world yet.
- I love that I teach air traffic control to new hires off the street.
- And most of them were fresh outs or recent hires, like a lot of them were quite junior.
- Marvin was in fact, the last of the fabled Edward R Murrow hires at CBS, the Murrow Boys.
- So you could have gone back and done it and just played it as a local hire and made way less money.
- So see team members and hires as an investment in your growth as a business.
Examples
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Who's the new hire?
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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.
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This woman, this woman will be the most important person you ever hire in your business.
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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.
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So a lot of times that first hire doesn't work out.
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Alicia Zhou is our latest hire out of Cornell.
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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
Compounds
To pay for something by small regular payments while you use it until you own it
How Near
Surface Forms
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.