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US
/ˈhaɪɝ, ˈhaɪɹ/
]
[ UK /hˈaɪə/ ]
[ UK /hˈaɪə/ ]
NOUN
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the act of hiring something or someone
he signed up for a week's car hire -
a newly hired employee
the new hires need special training
VERB
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engage for service under a term of contract
Let's rent a car
We took an apartment on a quiet street
Shall we take a guide in Rome? - hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
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engage or hire for work
How many people has she employed?
They hired two new secretaries in the department
How To Use hire In A Sentence
- We believe that it is okay to charge for healing based on the doctrine, ‘The workman is worthy of his hire.’
- Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
- We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
- It will probably work out cheaper to hire a van and move your own things.
- After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
- The firm employs ten people and hires drivers when required.
- They are hired to crack a safe, photograph the contents of a locked briefcase inside, and return it to the owner without him knowing.
- "I'm going to hire some movers to pack everything up.
- A private detective was hired to conduct the investigation .
- Some archaeologists have been championing the culture of pre-Roman Britain for some time and the Shropshire road may confirm that traders were bringing back continental innovations to add to existing native achievements in art and engineering. Letters: Native culture of pre-Roman Britain