hire

Plural: hires

Noun

• a newly hired employee
  • "the new hires need special training"
• the act of hiring something or someone
  • "he signed up for a week's car hire"
• A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
• The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
• Payment for the temporary use of something.
• Reward.

Verb

Verb Forms: hired, hiring, hires

• To engage services for payment.
• engage or hire for work
  • "They hired two new secretaries in the department"
• hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
• engage for service under a term of contract
• To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
• To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
• To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
• To exchange the services of for remuneration.
• To accomplish by paying for services.
• To accept employment.
• (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job

Examples

• After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
• He decided to hire a Scrabble tutor to improve his abysmal vocabulary.
• The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
• The sign offered pedalos on hire.
• They hired a milkshake.
• They hired out as day laborers.
• They hired themselves out as day laborers.  They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
• We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
• We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
• When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.

Synonyms

charter, employ, engage, lease, rent, take

Antonyms

fire

Related Words

rent, HIREABLE