hire
verb (used with object)
to engage the services of (someone) for wages or other payment.
am hiring
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present progressiveof hire (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“For the first time in recent Albany history, I am hiring staff whose entire focus will be conducting investigations,” Mr. Skoufis wrote.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
“I am hiring people who don’t just want to waste their time reporting other people’s work,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2012
He come to me when I am hiring the others, and he say he is a good driver.
From Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Meanwhile, with poor success, however, perceiving the impossibility of procuring Wanyamwezi pagazis, I am hiring the Wangwana renegades living in Unyanyembe to proceed with me to Ujiji, at treble prices.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
