Webster's English Dictionary

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hire

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  1. wage                   2. employ                
 
1. hire \'hi-(*)r\ n [ME, fr. OE hy-r; akin to MD hu-re hire] 1a: payment 
   for the temporary use of something  1b: payment for labor or personal 
   services : WAGES  2a: the act of hiring  2b: the state of being hired : 
   EMPLOYMENT 
2. hire vt 1a: to engage the personal services of for a set sum {~ on a new 
   c rew} 1b: to engage the temporary use of for a fixed sum {~ a hall}  2: to 
   grant the personal services of or temporary use of for a fixed sum <(~ 
   themselves out} 3: to get done for pay {~ the mowing done}  : to take 
   employment {~ out as a waitress during the tourist seas on}o engage or 
   grant for use at a price. HIRE and LET are complementary terms, HIRE 
   implying the act of engaging, and LET the act of granting, for use; LEASE 
   strictly implies a letting but is often applied informally to hiring on a 
   lease; RENT stresses the payment of money for the full use of property and 
   may imply either hiring or letting; CHARTER implies the hiring of a ship or 
   a public vehicle for exclusive use - hir.er n SYN syn HIRE, LET, LEASE, 
   RENT, CHARTER mean t