Dictionary Entry
hire
hire is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as pronoun, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Here, pron. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 6 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1pronoun
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
the act of hiring something or someone
"he signed up for a week's car hire"
- 8noun
a newly hired employee
"the new hires need special training"
- 9verb
engage for service under a term of contract
"We took an apartment on a quiet street"
"Let's rent a car"
- 10verb
engage or hire for work
"They hired two new secretaries in the department"
"How many people has she employed?"
- 11verb
hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
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