hire

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

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

Translations

louer

mieten

alquilar

huren

embaucher

contratar

anstellen

dingen

ενοικιάζω

affittare

alugar

emplear

einstellen

engager

aannemen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/haɪə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hire

Inherited from Old English: hȳr

Cognate with Hittite: 𒆪𒊭𒀭

Cognate with Western Frisian: hier

Cognate with Dutch: huur

Inherited from Middle English: hiren

Inherited from Old English: hȳrian

Cognate with Western Frisian: hiere

Cognate with Dutch: huren

Cognate with Low German: hüren

Cognate with Danish: hyre

In summary

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- or *kweHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).
Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).

Sentences

Get a suite at the Imperial and hire some bodyguards .