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Word definitions for hire in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hire car British English , a rental car American English ▪ We picked up a hire car at the airport. cycle hire (= hiring a cycle to use ) ▪ Cycle hire is available in the town centre. hire an instrument ▪ You could ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hire \Hire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hired (h[imac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hiring .] [OE. hiren, huren, AS. h[=y]rian; akin to D. huren, G. heuern, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra. See Hire , n.] To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for ...
Usage examples of hire.
The academician had arranged for the marquis to hire him as a secretary.
Harry smile - this cabby would make a report by telephone to some mysterious personage who had hired him to pick up a passenger outside the Acme Florists.
Castile to bring supplies and people under hire, and at the earliest opportunity to send also his brother, the Adelantado, to prosecute his discovery and find great things, as he hoped they would be found, to serve our Lord and the Sovereigns.
Partly as an example of his opposition to ageism he hired an old woman, Mrs.
He had to hire her on a freelance basis specifically to get the copyright clearances for the album since no one else at NEMS was capable of doing it.
Miss Ames, I think that my father and Hippocrates would never have seen eye to eye on the matter of payment for hire.
He is still alive, and somewhere wearily goes up and down the stairs of strange houses, stares somewhere at clean-scoured parquet floors and carefully tended araucarias, sits for days in libraries and nights in taverns, or lying on a hired sofa, listens to the world beneath his window and the hum of human life from which he knows that he is excluded.
I put the differences between what Roulet had said about my hiring and what Valenzuela had told me into the bank for later consideration and made my way back into the arraignment court.
Roulet had said about my hiring and what Valenzuela had told me into the bank for later consideration and made my way back into the arraignment court.
For the purpose of attending the Exchange, and of becoming acquainted with the language, he hired a lodging in the neighborhood of the city, where he remained for some weeks.
His claim that Zern had hired Peld to import mobsters into Georgia and crack down on the Aureole Mine was an almost outrageous statement.
We were all provided with very comfortable lodgings, but the intensity of the heat induced the baili to seek for a little coolness in a country mansion which had been hired by the Bailo Dona.
He hired land also of a tenant of the Basha, and sent wool and milk by the hand of a neighbour to the market at Tetuan.
Seems like a waste of his time to come looking for Beeker when he could hire a whole team of detectives to do the job for him.
The carnival began the day after my arrival, and I hired a superb landau for the whole week.