hire
noun
1. a newly hired employee
- the new hires need special training
Definition categories: person, employee
2. the act of hiring something or someone
- he signed up for a week's car hire
Definition categories: act, deed
Sentences with hire as a noun:
- The sign offered pedalos on hire.
- When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
- We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
verb
1. engage or hire for work
- They hired two new secretaries in the department
Similar word(s): employ, engage
Definition categories: social
2. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
Similar word(s): charter, lease, rent
Definition categories: social, contract, undertake
3. engage for service under a term of contract
Similar word(s): charter, engage, lease, rent, take
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
Sentences with hire as a verb:
- We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
- The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
- They hired themselves out as day laborers. They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
- After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
- They hired out as day laborers.