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hire

hire

33 3.0
Payment to use something for a short time, for example a car
  • noun
  • /haɪər/
translation icon : alquiler
  • For an event, you can find equipment like tents and chairs available for hire.
  • work for hire

It is the difference between hire and purchase.

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Examples

  • You want a servant for hire.

  • The first new hire was Rowlett, who was 21 at the time.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Is this boat for hire?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Certainly, the workman is worthy of his hire, and loaned value or investment requires repayment.

    Blog text (9)

Synonyms

employment
vshire
79 1.8

The act of hiring someone to work at a company

also covers paying to use things for a period, not only giving jobs
renting
vshire
2 1.0

Paying money to use something for a time, like a house or car

also covers paying to employ someone as well as paying to use things
hiring
vshire
  • UK
1 2.8

Renting something to use for a short time like a car or bike

also means paying to employ someone as well as paying to use things

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 Official

to mandate
  • Formal
169 4.9
to commission
  • Formal
103 4.4
to authorize
489 4.4
to engage
212 3.2
hire
33 3.0
to ask
1.0

Surface Forms

hire singular
hires plural

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.