 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hire
verb
1: engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in
the department"; "How many people has she employed?"
[syn: {engage}, {employ}] [ant: {fire}]
2: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and
services [syn: {rent}, {charter}, {lease}]
3: 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?" [syn: {lease}, {rent}, {charter},
{engage}, {take}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hire \Hire\ (h[~e]r), pronoun [Obs.]
See {Here}, pronoun --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hire \Hire\ (h[imac]r), noun [OE. hire, hure, AS. h[=y]r; akin to
D. huur, G. heuer, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra.]
1. 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. --Luke x. 7.
2. (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. --Story.
Syn: Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hire \Hire\, verb (used with an object) [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}, noun]
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "hire":
admission, admission fee, anchorage, appoint, bareboat charter,
base pay, bespeak, book, brief, brokerage, carfare, cellarage,
charge, charges, charter, compensation, contract for, cost,
cover charge, demand, dismissal wage, dockage, dues, earnings,
emolument, employ, engage, enlist, entrance fee, escalator clause,
escalator plan, exaction, exactment, fare, farm, farm out, fee,
financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage,
hire out, hiring, income, job, lease, lease out, lease-back,
lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, license fee,
living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances,
payment, payroll, pilotage, portage, portal-to-portal pay,
preengage, price, purchasing power, put on, rate, real wages,
recruit, remuneration, rent, rent out, rental, reserve, retain,
salary, salvage, scot, scot and lot, severance pay, shot, sign on,
sign up, sign up for, sliding scale, stipend, storage, sublease,
sublet, subrent, take into employment, take on, take-home,
take-home pay, taxable income, toll, total compensation, towage,
underlet, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction,
wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions,
wages after taxes, wharfage
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