hire
/ˈhaɪɹ/ verb B1- 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.
- To exchange the services of for remuneration. · They hired themselves out as day laborers. They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
- To accept employment. · They hired out as day laborers.
- (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job · They hired a milkshake.
He/she/it hires · Past hired · Past participle hired · -ing form hiring
Verb forms
- Base form
- hire
- He/she/it
- hires
- Past
- hired
- Past participle
- hired
- -ing form
- hiring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
“Little Jerry Buote from the Creek was here this morning, and I told him I guessed I’d hire him for the summer.”
A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of stealing something which should enable him to pay his reckoning.
He said, “I will come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers as I can hire, and will get in the harvest.” The Lark on hearing these words said to her brood, “It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.”
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