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for hire, available for use or service in exchange for payment.Also on hire.
Origin of hire
before 1000; (v.) Middle English hiren, Old English hȳrian (cognate with Dutch huren, Low German hüren, Old Frisian hēra); (noun) Middle English; Old English hȳr; cognate with Dutch huur, Low German hüre (whence Dutch hyre, Swedish hyra, German Heuer), Frisian hēre
SYNONYMS FOR hire
1 employ.
2 lease. Hire, charter, rent refer to paying money for the use of something. Hire is a general word, most commonly applied to paying money for labor or services, but is also used in reference to paying for the temporary use of automobiles (usually with a chauffeur), halls, etc.; in New England, it is used in speaking of borrowing money on which interest is to be paid (to distinguish from borrowing from a friend, who would not accept any interest): to hire a gardener, a delivery truck, a hall for a convention. Charter formerly meant to pay for the use of a vessel, but is now applied with increasing frequency to leasing any conveyance for the use of a group: to charter a boat, a bus, a plane. Rent is used in the latter sense, also, but is usually applied to paying a set sum once or at regular intervals for the use of a dwelling, room, personal effects, an automobile (which one drives oneself), etc.: to rent a business building.
5 rent, rental; stipend, wages, salary.
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Can be confusedhigher hire (see synonym study at the current entry)
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British Dictionary definitions for hire out
hire
/ (ˈhaɪə) /
verb (tr)
to acquire the temporary use of (a thing) or the services of (a person) in exchange for payment
to employ (a person) for wages
(often foll by out) to provide (something) or the services of (oneself or others) for an agreed payment, usually for an agreed period
(tr foll by out) mainly British to pay independent contractors for (work to be done)
noun
Derived Formshirable or hireable, adjectivehirer, noun
Word Origin for hire
Old English hӯrian; related to Old Frisian hēra to lease, Middle Dutch hūren
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Idioms and Phrases with hire out
hire out
Obtain work; also, grant the services or temporary use of for a fee, as in He hired out as a cook, or They hired out the cottage for the summer. [Second half of 1700s]
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