Meaning of hire in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• Payment for the temporary use of something.

  Example: The sign offered pedalos on hire.

• Reward, payment.

• The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

  Example: When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.

• A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

  Example: We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.

verb

• To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

  Example: We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.

• To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

  Example: The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.

• To exchange the services of for remuneration.

  Example: They hired themselves out as day laborers.  They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.

• To accomplish by paying for services.

  Example: After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.

• To accept employment.

  Example: They hired out as day laborers.