hire

hire has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• pron.. See Here, pron.
• n.. The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.
• n.. A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward.
• n.. To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.
• n.. To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.
• n.. To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.
• n.. the act of hiring something or someone; "he signed up for a week's car hire"
• n.. a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training"
• v.. engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
• v.. engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"
• v.. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services