hire
33
3.0
- noun
- /haɪər/
- For an event, you can find equipment like tents and chairs available for hire.
- work for hire
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Watch on YouTubeIt is the difference between hire and purchase.
- It is the difference between hire and purchase.
- And there are a hell of a lot more books on hiring than there are on onboarding.
- I'm looking at starting hiring over the next few months in particular.
- And the van hire place was inside a pet shop, random.
- I've said things like we don't do work for hire just like that.
- So you have private and for hire in general, for hire pays pays less.
Examples
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You want a servant for hire.
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The first new hire was Rowlett, who was 21 at the time.
Academic text (1991) -
Is this boat for hire?
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The only exception is when the client has you sign a "work for hire" agreement before the shoot.
Academic text (1995) -
I was his first hire at the University of Pittsburgh in 1975.
Academic text (2017) -
It is the difference between hire and purchase.
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The company also made its first technical hire, a communications engineer a few years older than the firm's founders.
Academic text (2007) -
The conversation quickly focused on the quality of hire: how to both measure and maximize it.
Blog text (8) -
I phoned Marston and asked him if anyone there had horses for hire.
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Certainly, the workman is worthy of his hire, and loaned value or investment requires repayment.
Blog text (9)
Synonyms
79
1.8
The act of hiring someone to work at a company
2
1.0
Paying money to use something for a time, like a house or car
1
2.8
Renting something to use for a short time like a car or bike
Compounds
To pay for something by small regular payments while you use it until you own it
How Official
- Formal
169
4.9
- Formal
103
4.4
489
4.4
212
3.2
33
3.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hire originally meant 'payment', which is why a hire can mean the act of paying to use something for a time, as when you rent a car.