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hiring

hiring

125 1.3
Giving someone a job in a company
  • noun
  • /ˈhaɪərɪŋ/
translation icon : contratación
  • The hiring process for new teachers will start next month.
  • hiring practices
  • hiring process
  • a hiring decision

Speaking of hair and hiring, hiring can be a slow process.

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Examples

  • The biggest mistake that people make is not hiring aggressively enough.

  • It seeks to make hiring simple, fast, and smart.

  • So this all starts with hiring the right people.

  • I do the hiring in my department.

  • Will I be sorry if I ask how the rest of our hiring is going?

    Fiction book (1999)
  • But post COVID, the hiring landscape has also changed.

  • Now she's in charge of the hiring.

  • While he was at Stony Brook, his talent for hiring became clear.

  • Such outcomes may have important repercussions for hiring organizations in terms of employee satisfaction.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Is the company in a hiring mode, in a freeze mode, or in a layoff mode?

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

employment
vshiring
79 1.8

The act of hiring someone to work at a company

is the specific act of giving a person work
placement
vshiring
  • Specialized
57 3.4

Finding a suitable job for someone often through an agency

means giving a person work directly rather than matching via services
staffing
vshiring
37 3.1

The way a company hires and assigns employees to do work

focuses on one act of giving work rather than ongoing employee arrangements
engagement
vshiring
26 3.1

Hiring someone for a job

is the general act of giving someone work rather than formal appointment
hiring process
vshiring
6 2.5

A set of steps a company uses to choose new workers

is a single act of giving work, not the whole step sequence

Antonyms

145 2.6

An event when a company ends someone's job because of money problems, not because they did a bad job

firing
  • Informal
13 3.7

The act of removing someone from their job

Compounds

A set of steps a company uses to choose new workers

A rule that stops a company or government office from taking on new workers to save money

hiring hall
  • Jargon
1 5.5

An office run by a union that gives its members temporary work

How Official

appointment
  • Formal
183 2.5
engagement
26 3.1
hiring
125 1.3
recruitment
70 3.0

Surface Forms

hiring singular
hirings plural

Morphology

hiring = hire (transparent) = hire + ing

A standard nominalization/gerund formed from the verb 'hire' with '-ing'; the meaning 'act of employing' is directly derived from the verb.

Etymology

Hiring comes from the old word hire, which meant 'payment' or 'pay for work'. So hiring someone originally meant paying them to work, and that is why today it often means giving someone a job.