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1 1.6
Giving someone a job now
  • verb
  • /ˈhaɪərɪŋ/
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  • Due to surging demand, they've been hiring more workers.

And, you know, we keep getting older and we keep hiring people who are younger.

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Examples

  • You are hiring them with that specific job in mind.

  • What have you learned about hiring people that most people miss?

  • And So what happens is the C students end up hiring the A students.

  • We're too tiny, so we're not hiring, in case you wonder.

  • And, you know, we keep getting older and we keep hiring people who are younger.

  • So, you know, I could just decide as a hiring manager, I'm not hiring enough African Americans.

  • And I can't tell you how many people ended up hiring me because that's how I held myself out.

  • The company is hiring new employees to meet the increasing workload.

  • After reviewing many applications, the manager is hiring two new assistants.

  • Due to the rapid expansion of the business, they are hiring more staff this month.

Synonyms

to hire
vsto hiring
1.4

To give someone a job and pay them for their work

is the present participle form used to show an ongoing action
to employ
vsto hiring
350 2.4

To give someone work and pay them for it

is the present participle form showing the action happening now

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

Surface Forms

hire infinitive
hired past
hired past participle
hiring present participle
hires third person singular

Morphology

hiring = hire (transparent) = hire + ing

Present participle formed from the verb 'hire' using the productive English suffix '-ing'; meaning 'employing' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Hiring here is the verb form of hire, a word that long meant 'to pay for work' or 'to take someone into a job'. So when a company is hiring, it is paying and bringing in new people to work for them.