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Past tense of rehire

regular verb

The past tense of rehire is rehired. The past participle is also rehired.

Forms of rehire

Base form (V1)rehire
Past tense (V2)rehired
Past participle (V3)rehired
Present participlerehiring
Third person singularrehires

Rehired in a sentence

  • The positives include savings on recruiting and training costs, maintaining associations between customers and employees, and the fact that the rehired employee doesn't need an introduction to his or her colleagues.2009 August 19, Jessica Dickler, “You're fired! You're hired!”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2017
  • He got fired and it's my job to get him rehired."2007, Saxon Bennett, Date Night Club, Talllahassee, F.L.: Bella Books, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry spank it

Meaning of rehire

  1. verb To hire again.
  2. noun A former employee who has been hired again.

Full definition of rehire

Questions about the past tense of rehire

What is the past tense of rehire?
The past tense of rehire is rehired.
What is the past participle of rehire?
The past participle of rehire is rehired.
Is rehire a regular or irregular verb?
Rehire is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rehire (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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