hire

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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

Verb

1. To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
2. To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
3. To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
4. To exchange the services of for remuneration.
5. To accomplish by paying for services.
6. To accept employment.
7. (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job

Sinonieme

employ

rent

lease

engage

wages

charter

pay

💸

let

rental

stipend

employment

salary

borrow

recruit

take on

fee

wage

take

fare

hire out

let out

requisition

freight

charges

earnings

tenancy

emolument

rent out

assume

payment

💸

contract

rental

retain

value

assign to

buy on credit

employ for wages

ask to do

have a loan

hold possession

pay wages

cause to work

cost of transportation

transport cost

engage somebody for something

engage somebody as somebody

accept

🉑

rent

activity

admit

allowance

apologize

blame

borrowing

busy

commission

compensation

count

🔢

enlist

enroll

expect

farm rent

hire-purchase

hiring

income

laborer

make use of

occupy

pastime

preoccupation

procure

remuneration

send

sign

sign on

staff

take in

tenant

transport charges

use

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/haɪə/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“payment”), from the verb *hūʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hūzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).
Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).