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Webster 1913 Edition

Hire

Hire

(hẽr)
,
p
ron.
[Obs.]
See
Here
,
p
ron.
Chaucer.

Hire

(hīr)
,
Noun.
[OE.
hire
,
hure
, AS.
hȳr
; akin to D.
huur
, G.
heuer
, Dan.
hyre
, Sw.
hyra
.]
1.
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.
The laborer is worthy of his
hire
.
Luke x. 7.
Syn. – Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.

Hire

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hired
(hīrd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hiring
.]
[OE.
hiren
,
huren
, AS.
hȳrian
; akin to D.
huren
, G.
heuern
, Dan.
hyre
, Sw.
hyra
. See
Hire
,
Noun.
]
1.
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.
2.
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
.
3.
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
.
They . . . have
hired
out themselves for bread.
1 Sam. ii. 5.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hire

HIRE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.
2.
To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for a compensation; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month.
3.
To bribe; to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward.
To hire out one's self, to let; to engage one's service to another for a reward.
They have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Sam.2.
To hire, or to hire out, to let; to lease; to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation. He has hired out his house or his farm.

HIRE

,
Noun.
1.
The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing.
2.
Wages; the reward or recompense paid for personal service.
The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke 10.

Definition 2024

hire

hire

See also: híre

English

Noun

hire ‎(plural hires)

  1. Payment for the temporary use of something.
    The sign offered pedalos on hire.
  2. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
    • Bible, Luke x. 7
      The labourer is worthy of his hire.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
      I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
  3. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
    When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
  4. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
    We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.

Synonyms

Translations

Verb

hire ‎(third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)

  1. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
    We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.‎
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      “[…] 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 the hired fly, about anything.”
  2. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
    The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.‎
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity:
      The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
  3. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
    They hired themselves out as day laborers.  They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.‎
  4. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
    After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.‎
  5. (intransitive) To accept employment.
    They hired out as day laborers.‎

Antonyms

Derived terms

See also

Translations

Anagrams

Abron

Etymology

Compare Akan hyire ‎(“white clay”).

Noun

hire

  1. white clay

References

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

Basque

Pronoun

hire

  1. yours

Japanese

Romanization

hire

  1. rōmaji reading of ひれ

Middle English

Pronoun

hire

  1. Alternative form of hir

Old English

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hire

  1. Genitive of hēo
  2. Dative of hēo

Etymology

From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr ‎(“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-Germanic *hūrijō ‎(“hire”), of uncertain origin. Compare Proto-Indo-European *kūs- ‎(“price; hire”).

Cognate with West Frisian hier ‎(“hire”), Dutch huur ‎(“hire”), Low German Hüre ‎(“hire”), German Heuer ‎(“hire”), Danish hyre ‎(“hire”).

The verb is from Middle English hiren, heren, huren, from Old English hȳrian.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: higher
  • IPA(key): /ˈhire/

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