hired

Verb

hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)

1. (Australia, UK, transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
   • We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.

   Synonyms:

   rent

2. (UK, transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
   • 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, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   rent

3. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
   • The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
4. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
   • They hired themselves out as day laborers. They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
5. (UK, transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
   • After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
6. (intransitive) To accept employment.
   • They hired out as day laborers.

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