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re-hire

re-hire is the alternative spelling of rehire.

Meaning of rehire

Verb

rehire (third-person singular simple present rehires, present participle rehiring, simple past and past participle rehired)

  1. (transitive) To hire again.
    • There are many upsides to rehiring former employees, according to management professor Peter Cappelli of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. The positives include savings on recruiting and training costs, maintaining associations between customers and employees, and the...2009 August 19, Jessica Dickler, “You're fired! You're hired!”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2017

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Forms of re-hire

third-person singular presentre-hires
present participlere-hiring
past participlere-hired
pastre-hired

Questions about re-hire

What is re-hire the alternative spelling of?
Re-hire is the alternative spelling of rehire.

Words near re-hire in the dictionary

  1. re-handicapped
  2. re-handicapping
  3. re-handicaps
  4. re-hearing
  5. re-hearings
  6. re-hire
  7. re-hired
  8. re-hires
  9. re-hiring
  10. re-ice
  11. re-iced

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