hiring-fair
(formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
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How to use hiring-fair in a sentence
He showed up for a “one-stop” hiring fair hosted by Customs and Border Protection in Dallas in February 2008.
On Polygraph Tests, Would-Be Border Patrol Agents Confess to Crimes | Andrew Becker | April 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe are brought on to a day in February, on which was held the yearly statute or hiring fair in the county-town of Casterbridge.
Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas HardyThere are good monthly stock fairs and a hiring fair in May.
The young and active get the preference and the old have to take a lower fee at each hiring fair to secure employment.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 | Gordon SellarIt was the chief hiring fair of the year, and differed quite from the market of a few days earlier.
The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy
One of the old institutions which still remain in the Cotswolds is the annual "mop," or hiring fair.
A Cotswold Village | J. Arthur Gibbs
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