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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HIRE, v.t.
1. To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.
2. To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for a compensation; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month.
3. To bribe; to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward.
To hire out one's self, to let; to engage one's service to another for a reward.
They have hired out themselves for bread. 2 Samuel 2.
To hire, or to hire out, to let; to lease; to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation. He has hired out his house or his farm.
HIRE, n.
1. The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing.
2. Wages; the reward or recompense paid for personal service.
The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke 10.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training"
2: the act of hiring something or someone; "he signed up for a week's car hire" v
1: engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" [syn: hire, engage, employ] [ant: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate]
2: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services [syn: rent, hire, charter, lease]
3: engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hy?r; akin to Old Saxon h?ria hire Date: before 12th century 1. a. payment for the temporary use of something b. payment for labor or personal services ; wages 2. a. the act or an instance of hiring b. the state of being hired ; employment 3. British rental — often used attributively 4. one who is hired <starting wage for the new hires> II. verb (hired; hiring) Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to engage the personal services of for a set sum <hire a crew> b. to engage the temporary use of for a fixed sum <hire a hall> 2. to grant the personal services of or temporary use of for a fixed sum <hire themselves out> 3. to get done for pay <hire the mowing done> intransitive verb to take employment <hire out as a guide during the tourist season> • hirer noun Synonyms: hire, let, lease, rent, charter mean to engage or grant for use at a price. hire and let strictly speaking, are complementary terms, hire implying the act of engaging or taking for use and let the granting of use <we hired a car for the summer> <decided to let the cottage to a young couple>. lease strictly implies a letting under the terms of a contract but is often applied to hiring on a lease <the diplomat leased an apartment for a year>. rent stresses the payment of money for the full use of property and may imply either hiring or letting <instead of buying a house, they decided to rent> <will not rent to families with children>. charter applies to the hiring or letting of a vehicle usually for exclusive use <charter a bus to go to the game>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. 1 (often foll. by from) procure the temporary use of (a thing) for an agreed payment (hired a van from them). 2 esp. US employ (a person) for wages or a fee. 3 US borrow (money). --n. 1 hiring or being hired. 2 payment for this. Phrases and idioms: for (or on) hire ready to be hired. hire-car a car available for hire. hired girl (or man) US a domestic servant, esp. on a farm. hire out grant the temporary use of (a thing) for an agreed payment. hire purchase Brit. a system by which a person may purchase a thing by regular payments while having the use of it. Derivatives: hireable adj. (US hirable). hirer n. Etymology: OE hyrian, hyr f. WG

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hire Hire (h[~e]r), pron. [Obs.] See Here, pron. --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hire Hire (h[imac]r), n. [OE. hire, hure, AS. h[=y]r; akin to D. huur, G. heuer, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra.] 1. 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. 2. (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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hire Hire, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hired (h[imac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hiring.] [OE. hiren, huren, AS. h[=y]rian; akin to D. huren, G. heuern, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra. See Hire, n.] 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hires, hiring, hired) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you hire someone, you employ them or pay them to do a particular job for you. Sixteen of the contestants have hired lawyers and are suing the organisers... The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts... He will be in charge of all hiring and firing at PHA. ...the mystery assassin (who turned out to be a hired killer). VERB: V n, V, V-ing, V-ed 2. If you hire something, you pay money to the owner so that you can use it for a period of time. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use rent) To hire a car you must produce a passport and a current driving licence... Her hired car was found abandoned at Beachy Head. VERB: V n, V-ed 3. You use hire to refer to the activity or business of hiring something. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use rental) They booked our hotel, and organised car hire... N-UNCOUNT: usu n N, N of n, N n 4. If something is for hire, it is available for you to hire. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use for rent) Fishing tackle is available for hire. PHRASE: usu v-link PHR

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hir: Two entirely different words are translated "hire" in the Old Testament:

(1) The most frequent one is sakhar, verb sakhar, and verbal adjective sakhir.

(a) As a verb it means "to hire" for a wage, either money or something else; in this sense it is used with regard to ordinary laborers (1Sa 2:5; 2Ch 24:12), or mercenary soldiers (2Sa 10:6; 2Ki 7:6; 1Ch 19:6; 2Ch 25:6), or a goldsmith (Isa 46:6), or a band of loose followers (Jud 9:4), or a false priest (Jud 18:4), or Balaam (De 23:4; Ne 13:2), or hostile counselors (Ezr 4:5), or false prophets (Ne 6:12 f). As a verbal adjective it refers to things (Ex 22:15; Isa 7:20)or men (Le 19:13; Jer 46:21).

(b) As a noun it denotes the wage in money, or something else, paid to workmen for their services (Ge 30:32 f; 31:8; De 24:15; 1Ki 5:6; Zec 8:10), or the rent or hire paid for a thing (Ex 22:15), or a work-beast (Zec 8:10). In Ge 30:16 Leah hires from Rachel the privilege of having Jacob with her again, and her conception and the subsequent birth of a son, she calls her hire or wage from the Lord for the gift of her slave girl to Jacob as a concubine (Ge 30:18).

(2) The other word translated hire is 'ethnan, once 'ethnan. It is rather a gift (from root nathan, "to give") than a wage earned by labor, and is used uniformly in a bad sense. It is the gift made to a harlot (De 23:18), or, reversing the usual custom, made by the harlot nation (Eze 16:31,41). It was also used metaphorically of the gifts made by Israelites to idols, since this was regarded as spiritual harlotry (Isa 23:17 f; Mic 1:7; compare also Ho 8:9 f).

In the English New Testament the word occurs once as a verb and 3 times as a noun as the translation of misthos, and its verbal form. In Mt 20:1,8 and Jas 5:4 it refers to the hiring of ordinary field laborers for a daily wage. In Lu 10:7 it signifies the stipend which is due the laborer in the spiritual work of the kingdom of God. It is a wage, earned by toil, as that of other laborers. The word is very significant here and absolutely negatives the idea, all too prevalent, that money received by the spiritual toiler is a gift. It is rather a wage, the reward of real toil.

William Joseph McGlothlin

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Rent, secure (temporarily) for pay. 2. Employ, take into service, take into one's employ. 3. Bribe, buy up, obtain one's services by corruption. 4. [Usually with out.] Let, lease. II. n. Wages, stipend, allowance, salary, pay, remuneration.

Moby Thesaurus

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