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HIRE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of hiring something or someone

Example:

he signed up for a week's car hire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hire" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A newly hired employee

Example:

the new hires need special training

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hire" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage for service under a term of contract

Example:

Shall we take a guide in Rome?

Synonyms:

charter; engage; hire; lease; rent; take

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "hire" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Engage or hire for work

Example:

How many people has she employed?

Synonyms:

employ; engage; hire

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hire"):

featherbed (hire more workers than are necessary)

fill (appoint someone to (a position or a job))

engage (ask to represent; of legal counsel)

ship (hire for work on a ship)

contract; sign; sign on; sign up (engage by written agreement)

rat (employ scabs or strike breakers in)

farm out; job; subcontract (arranged for contracted work to be done by others)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

fire (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position)

Derivation:

hirer (a person responsible for hiring workers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

charter; hire; lease; rent

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "hire" is one way to...):

contract; undertake (enter into a contractual arrangement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These are not hired slaves, but free companions, who will do nothing save by their own good wills.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not by a wagon or cart: oh no! nothing of that kind could be hired in the village.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Yet it is hard,” she sometimes thought, “that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Who, then, could have hired them?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Not more than six or eight will probably come, so I shall hire a beach wagon and borrow Mr. Laurence's cherry-bounce. (Hannah's pronunciation of char-a-banc.)

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

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The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said—much praise and many comments—undoubting decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerably;—but, unfortunately, among the failures which the daughter had to instance, the most recent, and therefore most prominent, was in her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)