hire Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a newly hired employee
- the new hires need special training
noun the act of hiring something or someone
- he signed up for a week's car hire
verb engage or hire for work
employ; engage.
- They hired two new secretaries in the department
- How many people has she employed?
verb hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
rent; charter; lease.
verb engage for service under a term of contract
engage; charter; take; lease; rent.
- We took an apartment on a quiet street
- Let's rent a car
- Shall we take a guide in Rome?

Obs.

OE. hire, hure, AS. hr; akin to D.huur, G. heuer, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra.

The price; reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.
The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 7.
(Law.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. Story. Syn. -- Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.

OE. hiren, huren, AS. hrian; akin to D. huren, G. heuern, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra. See Hire, n.

imperfect & past participle Hired ; present participle & verbal noun Hiring

To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.
To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.
To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.
They . . . have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Sam. ii. 5.