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See also:Hire,híre,andhirê

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishhire,hyre,here,hure, fromOld Englishhȳr(“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), fromProto-West Germanic*hūʀiju(“payment”), from the verb*hūʀijan, fromProto-Germanic*hūzijaną, fromProto-Indo-European*kewHs- or*kweHs-. CompareHittite𒆪𒊭𒀭(kuššan-,“fee, pay, wages, price”).

Cognate withWest Frisianhier(“hire”),Dutchhuur(“lease, rental”),German Low GermanHüür(“lease, rental”).

Noun

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hire (countable anduncountable,pluralhires)

  1. (countable) Aperson who has beenhired, especially in acohort.
    We pair up each of our newhires with one of our originalhires.
    • 2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, inRAIL, number1003, page62:
      Employment statistics, the other key indicator of Diversity & Inclusion performance, shows that almost 30% of new Southeasternhires are women.
  2. (uncountable) Thestate of being hired, or having ajob;employment.
    Synonym:employ
    When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in hishire.
  3. (uncountable)Payment for thetemporaryuse of something.
    The sign offered pedalos onhire.
  4. (uncountable, obsolete)Reward.
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the state of being hired, or having a job; employment
a person who has been hired

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishhiren,hyren, fromOld Englishhȳrian(“to hire”), from the noun (see above). CompareWest Frisianhiere(“to rent, lease”),Dutchhuren(“to rent, lease”),Low Germanhüren(“to rent”),Danishhyre(“to hire”),Swedishhyra(“to hire”).

EclipsedMiddle Englishsouden(“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed fromOld Frenchsouder,soudre,souldre(“to take into employ, pay”); seeEnglishsold(“salary, military pay”).

Verb

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hire (third-person singular simple presenthires,present participlehiring,simple past and past participlehired)

  1. (transitive, chiefly UK) Toobtain theservices of in return forfixedpayment.
    Synonym:rent
    Wehired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about thehired fly, about anything.”
  2. (transitive, chiefly UK) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
    Synonym:rent
    • 1854 August 9,Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, inWalden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC:
      I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage ofhiring compared with owning, but it is evident that the savage owns his shelter because it costs so little, while the civilized manhires his commonly because he cannot afford to own it; nor can he, in the long run, any better afford tohire.
  3. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange forremuneration; to give someone ajob.
    The company had problems when it tried tohire more skilled workers.
  4. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
    Theyhired themselves out as day laborers.  Theyhired out their basement for Inauguration week.
  5. (transitive, chiefly UK) To accomplish by paying for services.
    After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided tohire it done.
  6. (intransitive) To accept employment.
    Theyhired out as day laborers.
  7. (transitive)(neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
    Theyhired a milkshake.
Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of“to employ”):fire
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Terms derived fromhire (verb)
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  • → Hawaiian:hai
Translations
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to obtain the services of in return for fixed payment
to employ
to exchange the services of for remuneration
to accomplish by paying for services
to accept employment
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Anagrams

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Abron

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Etymology

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FromAkanhyire(“white clay”).

Noun

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hire

  1. whiteclay

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  • Trutenau,Languages of the Akan Area: Papers in Western Kwa Linguistics (1976)

Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian)/hiɾe/[hi.ɾe]
  • IPA(key): (Southern)/iɾe/[i.ɾe]
  • Rhymes:-iɾe,-e
  • Hyphenation:hi‧re

Pronoun

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hire

  1. genitive ofhi,your

Japanese

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Romanization

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hire

  1. Rōmaji transcription ofひれ

Middle Dutch

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Contraction

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hire

  1. contraction ofhi +‎dāer

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Englishhire(“her”), fromProto-West Germanic*heʀā,*hiʀā, fromProto-Germanic*hezōz, genitive feminine singular of*hiz(“this”), fromProto-Indo-European*ḱe(“here; this”).

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Determiner

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hire (nominative pronounsche)

  2. Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner:her, of her.
  3. Used in place of the possessive suffix-es to denote possession by an antecedent noun.
    • 1430, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.”, inCanterbury Tales:
      Here begynnyt the wyf of bathehir tale.
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Middle English personal pronouns
nominativeaccusativedativegenitivepossessive
singular1st personI,ich,ikmemin
mi1		min
2nd personþouþeþin
þi1		þin
3rd personmhehim
hine2		himhishis
hisen
fsche,heohire
heo		hirehire
hires,hiren
nhithit
him2		his,hit—
dual31st personwitunkunker
2nd personȝitincinker
plural1st personweus,ousoureoure
oures,ouren
2nd person4yeyowyouryour
youres,youren
3rd personinh.hehem
he2		hemherehere
heres,heren
bor.þeiþem,þeimþeirþeir
þeires,þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or beforeh.
2 Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

Pronoun

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hire (nominativesche)

  2. Third-person singular feminine genitive pronoun:hers.
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Etymology 2

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FromOld Englishhire(“her”), fromProto-West Germanic*heʀē,*hiʀē, fromProto-Germanic*hezōi, dative feminine singular of*hiz(“this”), fromProto-Indo-European*ḱe(“here; this”).

Pronoun

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hire (nominativesche)

  2. Third-person singular feminine pronoun indicating a grammatical object:her.
  3. (reflexive)herself.
  4. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object:it.
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Middle English personal pronouns
nominativeaccusativedativegenitivepossessive
singular1st personI,ich,ikmemin
mi1		min
2nd personþouþeþin
þi1		þin
3rd personmhehim
hine2		himhishis
hisen
fsche,heohire
heo		hirehire
hires,hiren
nhithit
him2		his,hit—
dual31st personwitunkunker
2nd personȝitincinker
plural1st personweus,ousoureoure
oures,ouren
2nd person4yeyowyouryour
youres,youren
3rd personinh.hehem
he2		hemherehere
heres,heren
bor.þeiþem,þeimþeirþeir
þeires,þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or beforeh.
2 Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
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Etymology 3

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    FromOld Englishhȳr, fromProto-West Germanic*hūʀiju. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique cases.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈhiːr(ə)/,(East Anglia, Kent)/ˈheːr(ə)/,(West Midland)/ˈhyːr(ə)/

    Noun

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    hire (pluralhires)

    1. One'ssalary;wages.
      Synonyms:mede,wage
    2. Areward;recompense.
      Synonym:mede
    3. One'sdeserts; what onedeserves.
    4. Apayment; acharge.
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    Etymology 4

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    Noun

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    hire

    1. alternative form ofhere(“army”)

    Etymology 5

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    Noun

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    hire

    1. (Somerset)alternative form ofiren

    Etymology 6

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    Verb

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    hire

    1. alternative form ofhiren(“to hire”)

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    Adjective

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    hire

    1. neutersingular ofhiren

    Old English

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    Pronunciation

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    Pronoun

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    hire

    1. genitive/dative ofhēo

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    Old Frisian

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    Alternative forms

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    Determiner

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    hire

    1. her

    Pronoun

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    hire

    1. genitive/dative ofhiū;her

    Declension

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    Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions
    nominativeaccusativedativegenitive
    singular1st personikmīmīmīn
    2nd personthūthīthīthīn
    3rd
    person    		mhīhinehimsīn
    fhiū,hiōhiāhire,hiārehire,hiāre
    nhithithimsīn
    plural1st personwīūsūsūser
    2nd personjījū,jōjū,jōjūwer
    3rd personhiāhiāhim,hirem,hiāremhira,hiāra

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    • North Frisian:hör
    • Saterland Frisian:hier
    • West Frisian:har
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