hire
verb (used with object)
to engage the services of (someone) for wages or other payment.
has been hiring
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present perfect progressiveof hire (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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OpenAI’s new hardware arm has been hiring aggressively from Apple recently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Visser also pointed out that the AI start-up Anthropic External link, the developer of the Claude LLM, has been hiring more life science researchers as of late.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Lara said that his plan is updating decades-old regulations based on the proposition and that his department has been hiring more personnel and consultants as it seeks to finalize the new rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
Meanwhile, the Public Investment Fund has been hiring and expanding rapidly as it invests to wean the country off its reliance on crude.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
‘If you mean that your precious Chief has been hiring ruffians out of the wild, then we’ve not come back too soon.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
