"hire" Definition

Definitions for the word "hire" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. pron.
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Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v.
(-ring) 1 purchase the temporary use of (a thing) (hired a van). 2 esp. Us employ (a person). n. 1 hiring or being hired. 2 payment for this. for (or on) hire ready to be hired. Hire out grant the temporary use of (a thing) for payment. hireable adj. Hirer n. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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