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Definition hire

Etymology 1

From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English h?r (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-Germanic *h?rij? (“hire”), of uncertain origin. Compare Proto-Indo-European *k?s- (“price; hire”).

Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“hire”), German Low German Hüre (“hire”), German Heuer (“hire”), Danish hyre (“hire”).

Noun

hire (plural hires)

1. Payment for the temporary use of something.
2. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
3. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
4. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hiren, heren, huren, from Old English h?rian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, hire”), Dutch huren (“to hire”), German heuern (“to hire”), Danish hyre (“to hire”).

Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”).

Verb

hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)

1. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
2. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
3. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
4. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
5. (intransitive) To accept employment.

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