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hire system

hire system noun: the system of buying and selling things via hire purchase.

Noun

hire system

  1. The system of buying and selling things via hire purchase.
    • But the poverty of Kingsland is the diseased poverty of bead flowers in the front room and sticky furniture on the hire system.1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company

Questions about hire system

What does hire system mean?
Hire system means the system of buying and selling things via hire purchase.
What part of speech is hire system?
Hire system is a noun.

Words near hire system in the dictionary

  1. hire car
  2. hire cars
  3. hire out
  4. hire purchase
  5. hire purchases
  6. hire system
  7. hireable
  8. hireage
  9. hired
  10. hired gun
  11. hired guns

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