rehire

[ree-hahyuhr]

verb (used with object)

1. to engage the services of (someone) for wages or other payment a second or subsequent time (often used in the passive).

   More than half of the dismissed teachers were rehired the following year.

   Officials have said they hope to rehire many of the 900 employees who were laid off when the hospital closed.

noun

1. an act or instance of engaging someone’s services for payment a second or subsequent time.

   A transfer within the group of related companies is considered continuous employment, not a termination and a rehire.

2. a person whose services have been engaged for payment a second or subsequent time.

   Rehires are eligible to have their retirement benefits reinstated after a 30-day waiting period.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rehire¹

First recorded in 1760–70; re- ( def. ) + hire ( def. )

Example Sentences

Instead, the union demanded that GM either reopen the factory and rehire all the workers, guarantee a new owner would provide them all with jobs, or offer a severance package that paid out full-time salaries and medical benefits until retirement age, Gaonkar said.

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Stokes said the hope was to continue to rehire more staff once the club’s dining facilities were in full operation.

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On Monday, the court issued a one-line order setting aside the decision of a federal judge in Boston who said the Education Department must rehire about 1,400 staffers who had been laid off.

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Sure, there have been stories that all of a sudden the new secretary of Health and Human Services realized he had cut too deeply and has been trying to rehire people to staff up the decimated NIH, and court decisions have reinstated a portion of the funding of research grants for universities.

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Unite the Union bosses said the council's stance over the refuse workers pay amounted to a 'fire and rehire' situation.

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