Definition of "hire"

hire¹

/haɪə/

noun
plural hires
1. Payment for the temporary use of something.
2. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
  Quotations
  I have five hundred crowns,The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father […]
  c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iii], lines 682-83
  The labourer is worthy of his hire.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 10:7
  I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
3. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
4. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

hire²

/haɪə/

verb
third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired
1. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
  Quotations
  “ […] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
2. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  Quotations
  I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage of hiring compared with owning, but it is evident that the savage owns his shelter because it costs so little, while the civilized man hires his commonly because he cannot afford to own it; nor can he, in the long run, any better afford to hire.
  1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields
3. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
  Quotations
  The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
4. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
5. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
6. (intransitive) To accept employment.
7. (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job

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