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outhired

outhired is the simple past and past participle of outhire.

Meaning of outhire

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

Questions about outhired

What is outhired the simple past and past participle of?
Outhired is the simple past and past participle of outhire.

Words near outhired in the dictionary

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

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