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HIRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers
Example:
the chartered buses arrived on time
Synonyms:
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Having services engaged for a fee
Example:
a hired gun
Classified under:
Similar:
employed (having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hire
Context examples:
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)
I hired a boat for myself, and I pulled after them.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I hired a boat directly, and we put off to her; and getting through the little vortex of confusion of which she was the centre, went on board.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then the thin man go and some one tell him where horse and cart can be hired.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It happened to be a hired waiter who knew nothing about the neighborhood and Jo was looking round for help when Laurie, who had heard what she said, came up and offered his grandfather's carriage, which had just come for him, he said.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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)
So he hired some villains to murder him; and having shown them where to lie in ambush, he went to his brother, and said, Dear brother, I have found a hidden treasure; let us go and dig it up, and share it between us.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Had it not been for a lugger which I specially hired to smuggle them, I might have been reduced to English tan.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have hired a building for the purpose, with a cottage of two rooms attached to it for the mistress's house.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
