hire
verb (used with object)
to engage the services of (someone) for wages or other payment.
unhired
-
a word derived from
hire.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes growing up I felt like the unhired help.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet there is a sort of unhired fidelity, an 'ourishness' about all this that makes it rest pleasant on one's feelings.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Gondola lies rotting unrestored, The Gondolier unhired must lounge and brood, Or stoop to "stoking" for his daily food, On board a puffing fiend that by "horse pow'r" Measures its might.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
He was unhired and unmarried, and was looking for some employment, as he was penniless.
From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang
Jean Duval has presented himself at a Paris newspaper office, asking for employment; this being refused him he makes a last request, offering to sell his muse, which he had hoped to keep unhired.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
