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Hiring

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.
    --1 Sam. ii. 5.

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hiring

vb. (present participle of hire English)

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Hiring

Hiring may refer to:

  • Recruitment of personnel (usually called hiring in American English)
  • Renting of something (borrowing for a fee, usually called hiring in British English)

Usage examples of "hiring".

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.

We are hiring you as a sensitive, intelligent man, and all we want from you are some letters which share with us your understanding of what transpired at Centennial, Colorado, between the years 1844 and 1974.

Was he thinking of hiring him to play attendant, like a cicisbeo of years gone by?

Thanks to Emile Bisson for hiring the newest Gamer, Bill Ramthun, and seating him at the desk right next to mine.

Mannicholo was telling the Clown Master that the captain and the Leewit and me are all cousins that Ethulassia talked Himbo Petey into hiring away from a big, important theater company on Rellart where we were all stars!

Men like these who roamed the countryside, hiring themselves out to the highest bidder, their loyalties as mutable as the wind, did so not by choice, but by circumstance.

Bull and on the way Ribble, who was thorough-going, first pulled up at the garage which Adam Penshaw had mentioned and checked on the hiring of motorcycles.

Upon hiring him, Scaife confided to Ruddy that he had called editorial page editor Eric Breindel at the Post for a reference.

Tis well I found the key, sirrah, for my lady wants you gone, and it must be now, whilst her brother is in the town hiring his mercenaries.

Two years later, the Senior Advisory Group, a group of senior black NSA employees, examined the barriers faced by African American applicants and employees in hiring, promotion, and career development.

Grandmere into talking the owner of Les Hautes Manger into hiring Jangbu back.

While keeping most of the picture intact, thus saving on the expense of hiring an artist, a modest amount of overpainting could transform Veronica Lake into Saint Veronica and she would have her very own respectable patron saint for her business.

There were legends of ancient parthenogenetic clans whose daughters brought status and wealth to the hive by hiring out as stealthy assassins.

Have you had any interest in our search or was I just saving Planir the cost of hiring you a wet-nurse for your journey?