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noun

Hire n.

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."

(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.

Synonyms: Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.

verb

Hire v. t. (past & past part. hired; pres. part. hiring)

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.

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.

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."

pronoun

Hire pron. (Obs.) See Here, pron.

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"Hire" Quotes from Famous Books

... was only a matter of a moment for her to arrange her household orders, and she promised to follow me to the next village in an hour with the parrot. I went on in advance with my little dog Peps, in order to hire a carriage in which to proceed on our journey to Chemnitz. It was a smiling spring morning when I traversed for the last time the paths I had so often trod on my lonely walks, with the knowledge that I should never wander along them again. While the larks were soaring ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... and a man well known, But using not his sirname's trade alone,[398] Did hackney out poor jades for common hire, Not fit for any pastime ...

— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... a load of my best books—my poor, few precious books that I have loved—and sell them at a second-hand bookstore. When I had sold them I had to hire a waiter's suit for a week, until I had money to buy it. And then with that awful thing on I went ...

— The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow" • Upton Sinclair

... the farm doing general farm work, hoeing, plowing, harvesting the crop of wheat, corn, barley, oats, rice, peas, etc. To make and harvest the crops dey would hire poor white help and as dey was grown and I was a lad, dey kept me in a strain in order to keep up wid dem for if I didn't it was just too bad for my back. So's dere would be work for me to do during the bad days of winter dey built a pen under a shed and dey would lay ...

— Slave Narratives, Oklahoma - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From - Interviews with Former Slaves • Various

... is work to be done." The task had not become easier for her, for the new trade with Calabar had brought about a demand for Okoyong yams, and the people were so busy planting at their farms that she was unable to hire labour. The bush would creep up swiftly and stealthily to the edge of the dwellings and become a covering for beasts of prey, and, then she and her girls would sally out and cut it down and burn it and dig out the roots. And in its place would be planted corn and ...

— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone

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