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outhire

outhire verb: to hire out.

Verb

outhire (third-person singular simple present outhires, present participle outhiring, simple past and past participle outhired)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To hire out.
    • When good was onely for it selfe desyred, / And all men sought their owne, and none no more; / When Iustice was not for most meed outhyred, / But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of outhire

third-person singular presentouthires
present participleouthiring
past participleouthired
pastouthired

Origin of outhire

From out- + hire.

Questions about outhire

What does outhire mean?
Outhire means to hire out.
What part of speech is outhire?
Outhire is a verb.
What is the past tense of outhire?
The past tense of outhire is outhired.

Words near outhire in the dictionary

  1. outherods
  2. outhike
  3. outhiked
  4. outhikes
  5. outhiking
  6. outhire
  7. outhired
  8. outhires
  9. outhiring
  10. outhiss
  11. outhissed

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