Hire

Definitions: Hire

Hire

Verb

1. Engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?".

2. Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Labor

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hire

Borrowing

Hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.

Commission

Put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown; enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to.

Offer

Adjective: offering, offered; Verb: in the market, for sale, to let, disengaged, on hire.

Price

Noun: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages; (remuneration); value; a.

Reward

Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage.

Crosswords: Hire

I should've known better than to hire somebody with a disease. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

How much would it cost to hire someone to get those dirtbags who killed my brother? (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson)

Well maybe the world's lending libraries will band together and hire an assassin! (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

Josh, why don't you just hire a gardener? (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.)

I'd like to hire a new staff. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done (Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music, BMI)

This gun's for hire even if we're just dancing in the dark (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

You make me feel like a girl for hire. (Strut; performing artist: Sheena Easton)

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself; hire someone; or forbid your kids to do it. (references; author: unknown)

Girls for Hire (1970)

Monsters for Hire (1965)

Mack & Myer for Hire (1963)

Escort for Hire (1960)

Not for Hire (1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Brandon Hire PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Coates Hire Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Hill Hire plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Speedy Hire P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• 96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire (reference)

• How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer: The Five Qualities That Make Salespeople Great (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hire (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• For Hire (reference)

• Monsieur Hire (reference)

• This Gun for Hire (reference)

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Music

• Bathing Beauty (1944 Film) / Here Come The Waves (1944 Film) / This Gun For Hire (1942 Film) [3 on 1] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• This Gun for Hire (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Dinosaurs for Hire (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Sleigh for hire at snow carnival, Lancaster, New Hampshire.Credit: Library of Congress.

America's success in war and industry depends on the co-operation of those who hire, earn or spend / PR.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hire him : he's got great legs.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hire him : he's got great legs.Credit: Library of Congress.

If you want it done right, hire a woman.Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't forget : hire the vet.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We shall see further on that this man did in fact hire a room in this isolated quarter.

I must then hire another to defend my right, it being against all rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself.

Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements.

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Business

Large companies prefer to hire consulting firms with international experience. (references)

A small number of wealthy Polish citizens hire architects to design their houses. (references)

End user-organizations in the IT industry battle to identify and hire the best workers. (references)

Children

Korea

Firms with over 300 employees are required by law either to hire persons with disabilities or pay a fine. (references)

Panama

Placement remains difficult despite a 1993 executive order granting tax incentives to firms that hire disabled employees. (references)

Mongolia

The Government also provides tax benefits to enterprises that hire the disabled, and some firms hire the disabled exclusively. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bosnia and Herzegovina

However, schools generally do not hire teachers to offer religious education classes to students of minority religions. (references)

Haiti

The financial and other means at the Government's disposal provide it with the means to hire experienced staff from competing media. (references)

Peru

By law, the military may hire only Catholic clergy as chaplains, and Catholicism is the only recognized religion of military personnel. (references)

Economic History

Armenia

The management also plans to hire an independent operator. (references)

Tanzania

The Embassy maintains a list of local attorneys for hire by U.S. firms. (references)

Lebanon

U.S. Firms wishing to conduct business in Lebanon are encouraged to hire a local attorney. (references)

Human Rights

Oman

A detainee may hire an attorney, but has no explicit right to be represented by counsel. (references)

Jordan

Public defenders are provided if the defendant in such cases is unable financially to hire legal counsel. (references)

Uzbekistan

The State provides legal counsel without charge, but by law the accused also has the right to hire an attorney. (references)

Minorities

Belgium

It is illegal for providers of goods or services (including housing) to discriminate on the basis of any of these factors and for employers to consider these factors in their decisions to hire, train, or dismiss workers. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

Contract labor, although widely used, does not receive the same benefits as direct hire employees. (references)

UKRAINE

In certain non-hazardous industries, enterprises may negotiate with the government to hire employees between 14 and 17 years of age, with the consent of one parent. (references)

Political Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

Sub-national governments generally must rely on the central Government for much of their revenue, but mayors have autonomy to hire and fire community administrative personnel. (references)

Kazakhstan

The executive branch controls the budget for Parliament's operations; it has not provided funds for Members of Parliament to hire staff, a situation generally viewed as decreasing Parliament's effectiveness. (references)

Kenya

However, the National Assembly has the power to hire its own staff and to vote its own budget, despite President Moi's long-expressed opposition to it doing so. In November 2000, the National Assembly passed implementing legislation to establish the Parliamentary Service Commission, which was exercising fully its power to hire staff and establish budget by year's end. (references)

Trade

France

Also, foreign lawyers and firms are not permitted to form partnerships with or hire French lawyers. (references)

India

The host country must hire U.S. firms to undertake detailed studies of the technical and economic feasibility of the proposed projects. (references)

Ukraine

As a licensee, the enterprise can hire its own personnel to supervise the submission of customs declarations, but the customs official actually approves final clearance. (references)

Travel

Sri Lanka

Many visitors hire cars and drivers, or use local taxi services. (references)

Mexico

Non-Spanish speaking visitors to Mexico may wish to hire an interpreter. (references)

Haiti

Visitors are well advised to hire a car and driver for ground transportation requirements in Haiti. (references)

Women

Italy

As a result of liberal maternity leave laws introduced to benefit women, some employers have found it advantageous to hire men instead. (references)

Spain

A ministerial order to increase women's presence in sectors in which they are underrepresented provides a 2-year reprieve from paying social security taxes to employers who hire women in these sectors. (references)

Afghanistan

The Taliban reversed its decision the next day, apparently accepting the WFP's explanation that female staff of the bakeries were not direct hire WFP employees and therefore not subject to the July 6 order. (references)

Worker Rights

Qatar

Employers also must obtain permission from the Ministry of Education to hire a minor. (references)

Indonesia

Some employers hire children because they are easier than adults to manage and less likely to organize or make demands on employers. (references)

Philippines

Many firms hire employees at below the minimum apprentice rates, even if there is no approved training in their production-line work. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hire": be for hire ♦ boat hire ♦ boat hire business ♦ buy on hire purchase ♦ buy smth. on hire purchase ♦ car hire ♦ car on hire ♦ car plying for hire ♦ for hire ♦ hire a gunman ♦ hire a taxi ♦ Hire and purchase agreement ♦ hire car ♦ hire charge ♦ hire company ♦ hire on ♦ hire oneself out ♦ hire out ♦ hire purchase ♦ Hire purchase agreement ♦ hire system ♦ let out on hire ♦ murder for hire ♦ on hire ♦ ply for hire ♦ take a car on hire ♦ transport for hire or reward. Additional references.

Beginning with "hire": Hire-a-heap, hire-car, hire-cycle, Hire-em, hire-purchase, hire-purchase plan, hire-purchase system, hire-purchase terms, hire-purchasers, hire-system.

Ending with "hire": car-hire.

Afrikaan

huur. (various references)

Albanian

qira (lease, rent, residential rental), pajtoj në punë (lay on), pajtim në punë, marr me qira (charter, lease, rent, take a lease), mëditje (daily-pay), jap me qira (demise, lease, let, let out, Lodge, rent, underlet). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تأجير (hiring, leasing), ‏إستخدم (employ, engage, exercise, exploit, harness, hunt, indent, involve, spend, take on, use, utilize), ‏إستأجر (charter, lease, recruit, rent, wage), ‏أجر (charter, farm out, let, lodge, rent, room), ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute, tuck), ‏بالاجرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

награда (award, hay, meed, payment, payoff, premium, prize, requital, reward), наемане (engagement, lease, tenancy), наемам (charter, employ, engage, fee, sign on, sign up, take on), наем (lease, render, rent, rental), заплащтане, пазаря, давам под наем (freight, hack, job, lease, let, rent). (various references)

Cebuano

mosuhol (to hire). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma emplea (to hire). (various references)

Chinese 

雇 , 聘請 (engage), 聘�"� (hired, Hires, Hiring), 僱�"� , 僱佣 (employ), 僱 , 僦 (to rent), 招�"� (recruit), 佣 (commission, servant), 傭 (servant). (various references)

Czech

zamìstnat (employ, occupy, take on, task), vzít do služby, vypùjèit, pronajímání, pronájem (charter, lease, tenure), pùjèovné (rental), najmout (engage, rent), nájem (charter, copyhold, lease, tenancy, tenement), nábor (intake, propaganda, recruitment), mzda (pay, wage, wages). (various references)

Danish

hyre. (various references)

Dutch

huren (employ, rent), aanwerven (employ, recruit), aannemen (accept, adopt, affiliate, confirm, employ, guess, presume, receive, suppose, surmise, take, take in). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

llancachina (to hire). (various references)

Esperanto

lui, dungi (employ). (various references)

Faeroese

leiga (employ), festa (affix, attach, determine, employ, fasten, fix, make fast, secure), útvega (achieve, acquire, attain, employ, get, obtain, provide, recruit). (various references)

Farsi 

مزد (Pension, Wage), کرایه کردن (Lease, Rent), کرایه (Fare, Freight, Lease, Portage, Rent), اجیرکردن (Wage), اجاره (Lease, Rent), اجرت (Pay, Wage). (various references)

Finnish

vuokrata (let, rent, to lease, to rent), vuokra (farm rent, lease, rent, rental), palkata (employ, engage). (various references)

French

louer, embaucher, location (hiring). (various references)

Frisian

hiere (to rent), hier (hair, rent, rental). (various references)

German

mieten (charter, employ, engage, lease, leasing, rent, to engage, to rent), leihen (borrow, lend, loan, loans, to borrow, to lend), heuern (employ, engage, sign on), dingen (bargain, employ, engage, haggle). (various references)

Greek 

νοικιάζω (let out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשכור (lease, rent), לחכור (lease, rent), ל�"שכיר (let, rent), שכירות (lease, rent, tenancy), שכיר�" (hiring, rent), �"שכר�" (hiring out, leasing, renting). (various references)

Hungarian

szerződtetés (engagement), kibérelés, fizetés (earnings, emoluments, exhibition, fee, improver, military pay, pay, payment, salary, stipend, wage), díjazás (consideration, remuneration), bérelés, bérbevétel (lease, leasing), bér (lease, pay, payment, rental, wage), alkalmazás (accommodation, adaptation, application, contrivance, employ, employment, enforcement, hiring, service, suiting, use). (various references)

Icelandic

leigja (let, rent out). (various references)

Indonesian

sewa, menggaji (employ, pay a salary). (various references)

Inuktitut

sanatitiluni (to hire). (various references)

Italian

prendere in affitto (lease, rent), affitto (lease, let, letting, letting on lease, rent, renting, tack, tenancy, usufructuary lease). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雇傭 (employment). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しようりょう (amount used, rent), かりち�" (rent), �"よう (employment, trifling matter, urination, urine), よう (appearance, business, calamity, early death, employ, in order to, kind, like, manner, so as to, so that, sort, such as, task, to become intoxicated, to get drunk, use, way, yang), ち�"がし (lease, rent). (various references)

Kongo

ku-baka mu kisalu (to hire). (various references)

Korean 

� 용 (Employment, Hires, Hiring). (various references)

Manx

failley (brief, employ, employment, engage, engagement), faill (board, fare, fee, pay, salary, stipend, wages). (various references)

Maori

riihi-tia (to hire). (various references)

Norwegian

leie (lease, rent, rent money). (various references)

Papago

chehani (to hire). (various references)

Papiamen

hür (let, rent, rent out, rental). (various references)

Pig Latin

irehay

Portuguese

contratar (article, charter, engage, make a contract), alugar (attorn, hack, let, rent, take). (various references)

Romanian

închiria (freight, hack, job, lease, occupy, rent, take, tenant). (various references)

Romany

yav� lis butsèti (to hire). (various references)

Ruanda

gutira (to hire). (various references)

Russian 

сдавать внаем (lease, let), нанимать (contracted by, employ, engage, rent, sign on, take), наем (employment, lease, rent), аренда (lease, occupancy, rent, rental), брать напрокат. (various references)

Samoan

e faatonu (to hire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaposliti (employ, keep busy), zakup (charter, holding, lease, rent, tenancy), uzeti (get, pick up, take, take away), unajmiti, najam (lease, rent). (various references)

Spanish

arrendar (farm out, lease, let, rent, to lease, to rent), alquilar (engage, hire out, let, let off, let out, rent, rent out, take), alquiler (charter, leasing, let, rent, rental, renting). (various references)

Sranan

yuru (hour, o'clock, time). (various references)

Swedish

leja, hyra (berth, charter, lease, Lodge, rent, rent money, rental, residential rental, room, tenant), uthyrning (lease, letting, rental). (various references)

Thai

การจ้าง, จ้าง. (various references)

Turkish

tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), kiralamak (affreight, buy, charter, hire on, job, lease, rent, tenant), kiralama (affreightment, charter, hiring, lease, leasing), kira (rent, rental), ücretle çalıştırmak (hire on), ücret (charge, dues, earnings, emolument, fee, honorarium, pay, payment, rate, remuneration, salary, stipend, terms, wage, wage rate, wages). (various references)

Ukranian 

наймати (employ, engage, wage), наймання (employment, leasehold), брати напрокат (charter), прокат (milling, rent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiền trả công, tiền thưởng (consideration, donative, douceur), sự thuê (tenancy). (various references)

Welsh

hurio, hur (wage), llogi, cyflogi (engage in service), cyflog (wage, wages). (various references)

Zulu

-qasha. (various references)

latron. (various references)

conducat, conducebant, conducebat, conducentes, conducere, conducerent, conduco, conducta, conducto, conductum, conduxerint, conduxerunt, conduxeruntque, conduxi, conduxissent, conduxit, loco, mercede, mercedem, mercedes, mercedibus, mercedis, merces. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "hire": hireable, hired, hireling, hirelings, hirer, hirers, hires. (additional references)

Words ending with "hire": camphire, rehire, samphire, sapphire, shire. (additional references)

Words containing "hire": camphires, rehired, rehires, samphires, sapphires, shires, unhired. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahire, Bhi-ri, dhire, Ghir, hairu, Harue, harve, haure, heare, heiro, hereu, Herye, herze, hfire, hiar, hibe, hice, Hidri, hier, Hiera, hiero, hife, hige, hije, Hijrah, Hile, hinee, hiort, hira, Hirac, Hiral, hird, hirde, hiree, hirev, hirey, hirez, hirg, Hiri, hirk, hirl, Hirn, hirne, hiro, hirry, hirs, hirt, hirte, hiry, hiryu, hirz, Hirzel, hixe, hize, hlr, hoia, Horejc, horo, hre, hris, hure, Huri, Hurke, huro, hurre, Hurree, hye, hyra, hyrae, hyrde, Hyre, hyro, hyte, Ihihe, Ihr, ihren, jire, Jireh, lhire, Mhuire, nire, thire, yire. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: heir.

-1 letter: her, hie, ire, rei.

-2 letters: eh, er, he, hi, re.

+1 letter: heirs, hider, hiker, hired, hirer, hires, ither, shier, shire, their.

+2 letters: achier, ashier, cahier, ceriph, chicer, chider, chimer, chirre, cipher, cither, coheir, dither, dreich, dreigh, driegh, either, enrich, ephori, fisher, hailer, haired, hazier, hegari, hegira, heifer, heired, hejira, herdic, herein, heriot, hermai, hermit, hernia, heroic, heroin, hiders, higher, hikers, hiller, hinder, hinger, hinter, hipper, hirers, hirple, hirsel, hirsle, hisser, hither, hitter, hokier, holier, homier, hosier, humeri, inhere, lither, menhir, mither, nigher, perish, rehire, relish, reship, richen, richer, riches, sherif, shiers, shiner, shires, shiver, shriek, shrike, shrine, shrive, sigher, theirs, thrice, thrive, tither, whiner, whiter, wisher, wither, writhe, zither.

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