Definitions for Hire
haɪərhire

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hirenoun

   a newly hired employee

   "the new hires need special training"

2. hireverb

   the act of hiring something or someone

   "he signed up for a week's car hire"

3. hire, engage, employverb

   engage or hire for work

   "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

4. rent, hire, charter, leaseverb

   hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

5. lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, takeverb

   engage for service under a term of contract

   "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hirenoun

   Payment for the temporary use of something.

   The sign offered pedalos on hire.

2. hirenoun

   Reward, payment.

3. hirenoun

   The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

   When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.

4. hirenoun

   A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

   We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.

5. hireverb

   To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

   We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.

6. hireverb

   To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

   The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.

7. hireverb

   To exchange the services of for remuneration.

8. hireverb

   To accomplish by paying for services.

   After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.

9. hireverb

   To accept employment

   They hired out as day laborers.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hirenoun

   Etymology: hyre, Saxon.

   1. Reward or recompence paid for the use of any thing.2. Wages paid for service.

   Great thanks and goodly meed to that good sire;
   He thence departing gave for his pains hire. Fairy Queen.

   I have five hundred crowns,
   The thrifty hire I sav’d under your father. William Shakespeare.

   Though little was their hire, and light their gain,
   Yet somewhat to their share he threw. Dryden.

   All arts and artists Theseus could command,
   Who sold for hire, or wrought for better fame. Dryden.

2. To HIREverb

   Etymology: hyran, Saxon.

   1. To procure any thing for temporary use at a certain price.

   His sordid avarice rakes
   In excrements, and hires the jakes. John Dryden, Juvenal.

   2. To engage a man to temporary service for wages.

   They weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god. Is. xlvi. 6.

   I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
   Are hir’d to bear their staves. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   3. To bribe.

   Themetes first, ’tis doubtful whether hir’d,
   Or so the Trojan destiny requir’d,
   Mov’d that the ramparts might be broken down. John Dryden, Æn.

   4. To engage himself for pay.

   They that were full, hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry, ceased. 1 Sa. ii. 5.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hire

   Hire refers to the act of engaging someone's labor or services for payment, often under a contractual agreement. It can also refer to the condition of being employed or the payment agreed upon for such work. Additionally, it can mean to rent or lease something like a vehicle, equipment, or property.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Hire

   see Here, pron

2. Hirenoun

   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

3. Hirenoun

   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

4. Hirenoun

   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

5. Hirenoun

   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

6. Hirenoun

   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

7. Etymology: [OE. hiren, huren, AS. hrian; akin to D. huren, G. heuern, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra. See Hire, n.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hire

   hīr, n. wages for service: the price paid for the use of anything.—v.t. to procure the use or service of, at a price: to engage for wages: to grant temporary use of for compensation: to bribe.—adj. Hire′able.—ns. Hire′ling, a hired servant: a mercenary: a prostitute (also adj.); Hir′er; Hire′-sys′tem, a system by which a hired article becomes the property of the hirer after a stipulated number of payments; Hir′ing, the contract of hiring—bailment for hire (in Scotland, location): a fair or market where servants are engaged.—On hire, for hiring. [A.S. hýr, wages, hýrian, to hire; Ger. heuer, Dut. huur.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hire

   To have the use of a piece of equipment, tool, device or item for a specific period of time and to pay a cost for this service.

   They did hire a car and were delighted with the one they received.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  

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1. HIRE

   What does HIRE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the HIRE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HIRE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hire is ranked #29528 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hire surname appeared 799 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Hire.
   
   94.8% or 758 total occurrences were White.
   2.2% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1% or 8 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Contract
   • Employee
   • Get

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hire' in Nouns Frequency: #2981

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hire' in Verbs Frequency: #730

Anagrams for Hire »

1. heir

2. rehi

3. ReHi

How to pronounce Hire?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Hire in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hire in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hire in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Hire in a Sentence

1. Chris Christie:

   We've got to penalize employers who hire people who are here illegally, because the fact is that that shouldn't happen and it's exploiting American workers. But in addition to that, it's exploiting many of those people who are here illegally because they're being paid less money. So we need to make bigger fines to make sure that those employers who violate the law are being held accountable.

2. President Barack Obama:

   Today's bipartisan Senate vote is an important step toward ensuring the United States can negotiate and enforce strong, high-standards trade agreements, if done right, these agreements are vital to expanding opportunities for the middle class, leveling the playing field for American workers, and establishing rules for the global economy that help our businesses grow and hire by selling goods made in America to the rest of the world.

3. Jason Furman:

   The problem with the economic side is that if it lasts more than a few months, it then takes on its own momentum, if you look across the United States and across other countries, the unemployment rate can go up very quickly, but it cant come back down very quickly. It never has. A business whose balance sheet is in tatters after nine months without revenues might go bankrupt, it might go out of business, or it wont be in position to hire people back immediately even if demand returns.

4. Steven Butler:

   This action will not stop the ongoing tit-for-tat between China and the United States, and may escalate it. China should stop trying to control and intimidate foreign news bureaus and allow them to hire Chinese staff freely and directly.

5. Robert Mueller:

   We strove to hire those individuals that could do the job, i have been in this business for almost 25 years. And in those 25 years I have not had occasion, once, to ask somebody about their political affiliation. It is not done. What I care about is the capability of the individual to do the job and do the job quickly and seriously and with integrity.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Hire
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hire
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Hire
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hire
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Hire
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html