Hire

Noun

 * 1) Payment for the temporary use of something.
 * The sign offered pedalos on hire.
 * 1)  Reward, payment.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
 * I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
 * 1) The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
 * ''When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
 * 1) A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
 * We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.

Verb

 * 1)  To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
 * We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To exchange the services of for remuneration.
 * ''They hired themselves out as day laborers.
 * They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
 * 1)  To accomplish by paying for services.
 * After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
 * 1)  To accept employment
 * They hired out as day laborers.

Synonyms for Hire

 * employment, employ,
 * engage, rent, lease, use, let, contract (for).

Antonyms for Hire

 * fire
 * discharge, buy, purchase, retire.

Thesaurus
admission, admission fee, anchorage, appoint, bareboat charter, base pay, bespeak, book, brief, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, charter, compensation, contract for, cost, cover charge, demand, dismissal wage, dockage, dues, earnings, emolument, employ, engage, enlist, entrance fee, escalator clause, escalator plan, exaction, exactment, fare, farm, farm out, fee, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire out, hiring, income, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, license fee, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, pilotage, portage, portal-to-portal pay, preengage, price, purchasing power, put on, rate, real wages, recruit, remuneration, rent, rent out, rental, reserve, retain, salary, salvage, scot, scot and lot, severance pay, shot, sign on, sign up, sign up for, sliding scale, stipend, storage, sublease, sublet, subrent, take into employment, take on, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, toll, total compensation, towage, underlet, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wharfage

Etymology
From, from hyr:, from , from. Cognate with hier:,  huur:,  Hüre:,  Heuer:,  hyre:.

Noun

 * Finnish: * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese: emprego


 * Scottish Gaelic: fastachadh


 * Finnish:


 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 租借,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: ,
 * Italian: assoldare
 * Japanese: 借りる
 * Polish: wynajmować / wynająć, wypożyczać / wypożyczyć
 * Russian: брать напрокат, взять напрокат ,   ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fastaidh
 * Swedish:


 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: استخدم,,  استعمل
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雇傭, 雇佣,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ansætte
 * Dutch: aanwerven,
 * Finnish:, ,  ottaa työhön
 * French:, ,
 * German: anwerben, ,
 * Irish:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 雇う,
 * Macedonian: најмува, изнајмува
 * Norwegian: ansette
 * Polish: najmować (do pracy), zatrudniać
 * Portuguese:, empregar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,   ,  трудоустраивать ,  трудоустроить
 * Scottish Gaelic: fastaidh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch: werk aannemen


 * Finnish: mennä töihin, palkkautua


 * : noleggiare (1), assumere (2)
 * : contratar (1)
 * : contratar (1)


 * : anställa (2)
 * : anställa (2)

Related terms

 * employ

Anagrams

 * heir
 * rehi, ReHi

Pronoun

 * 1) yours