hive
noun
a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
had hived
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past perfectof hive.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In recent years, energy companies had hived off renewable energy projects into special, publicly traded vehicles—yieldcos—that were supposed to pay dividends.
From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2015
The sale was “really hard for him to go through,” he says of Chouinard, 75, who had hived off the business in 1981 to concentrate on apparel.
From Forbes ● Sep. 10, 2014
The early aeronauts who had hived there were mostly grease-stained motorcycle or automobile racers who flew—or tried to fly—out of the sheer love of risking their necks in public.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were followed by other bands, among whom were men of wealth and education, from Graaff-Reinet, Uitenhage, and Albany, until a mighty host had hived off into the far north.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The Black Bees had swarmed there and Toussaint L'Overture had hived them as he had asked Frederick Douglas to hive them here.
From The Man in Gray by Thomas Dixon
