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

1. pronoun. See Here, pron.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. the act of hiring something or someone

   "he signed up for a week's car hire"

8. noun. a newly hired employee

   "the new hires need special training"

9. verb. engage for service under a term of contract

   "We took an apartment on a quiet street"

   "Let's rent a car"

   Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take

10. verb. engage or hire for work

    "They hired two new secretaries in the department"

    "How many people has she employed?"

    Synonyms: employ, engage

11. verb. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

    Synonyms: charter, lease, rent

Synonyms

charter, engage, lease, rent, take, employ

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hire:

heir

Common word forms

hired, hirer, hires, hirees, hiring, hireable, hireless

Words from these letters

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