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/hˈaɪər/ /haɪr/ Listen

noun

Hire n.

The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. "The laborer is worthy of his hire."

(Law.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward.

Synonyms: Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.

verb

Hire v. t. (past & past part. hired; pres. part. hiring)

To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.

To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.

To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time. "They... have hired out themselves for bread."

pronoun

Hire pron. (Obs.) See Here, pron.

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"Hire" Quotes from Famous Books

... Doctor, "and buy them, too. I know of several lodging-houses where I could hire a baby from fourpence to a shilling a day. The prettier the child is the better; should it happen to be a cripple, or possessing particularly thin arms and face, it is always worth a shilling. Little girls always ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... of her last baby, Clate's wife got down with a bealed breast after she had been up and about for a week. "I'm bound to hire someone," Clate told his wife. So he hired Liz Elswick to come and do the cooking, washing, and ironing and to look after ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... I have said, ran late in the afternoon. This was to accommodate the passengers who came by rail. But Mr. Ransom had not planned to go by coach. That would be to risk a premature encounter with his wife, or at least with the lawyer. He preferred to hire a team, and be driven there by some indifferent livery-stable man. Neither prospect was pleasing. It had been raining all night, and bade fair to rain all day. The river was clouded with mist; the hills, which are the glory of the place, were obliterated from the landscape, and the road—he ...

— The Chief Legatee • Anna Katharine Green

... land, not measured, but calculated according to the number of beasts it was able to support. A flaith whose stock for letting ran short hired some from a king and sublet them to his own people. A feine, aithech, or ceile (kailyeh), as a farmer was generally called, might hire stock in one of two distinct ways: saer-"free", which was regulated by the law, left his status unimpaired, could not be terminated arbitrarily or unjustly, under which he paid one-third of the value of the stock yearly for seven years, at the end of which time what remained of the stock ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

... ... ("Puff-puff-puff!" from engine shunting trucks) ... Many unthinking persons have said ... (Piercing and prolonged scream from same engine.) This is not so. On the contrary ... (Metallic bangs from trucks.) Men and animals are ... ("Programmes! Opera-glasses on hire!") ... purely ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, July 9, 1892 • Various

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