hire out
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The Rock saw it and sent back a video message promising to hire out a cinema for them and their friends and family to watch the film.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
I could sew or hire out to scrub stables.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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