hire out
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According to the listing, the buyer will have to sign an agreement stating they will not hire out or use the costume for public exhibition before getting the item, due to copyright law.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2023
They learned that as early Richmond began to industrialize, plantation owners would hire out their enslaved workers to city businesses and factories.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022
Many editors from a variety of publications use Twitter to post calls for pitches: stories they're hoping to hire out to freelancers.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2022
We agreed that we would do what we could ourselves and that we would hire out what we couldn’t do.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2019
It wouldn’t be hard, he said, if Estraven would take a false name and hire out as a cook or farmhand, which would not be pleasant, perhaps, but certainly better than returning to Orgoreyn.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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