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outhiring

outhiring is the present participle and gerund 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 outhiring

What is outhiring the present participle and gerund of?
Outhiring is the present participle and gerund of outhire.

Words near outhiring in the dictionary

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

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