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rehire

rehire verb: to hire again.

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
    • The National Labor Relations Board petitioned in federal court to force Starbucks (SBUX) to rehire three workers who claimed the coffee chain retaliated against them for attempting to unionize.2022 April 25, Ramishah Maruf, “US labor board sues Starbucks to rehire unionizing employees”, in CNN

Noun

rehire (plural rehires)

  1. A former employee who has been hired again.
    • Not all rehires have a happy ending. Jerry Abiog, 37, worked for an Atlanta-based consulting firm until he was laid off in January -- only to get called back six weeks later.2009 August 19, Jessica Dickler, “You're fired! You're hired!”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2017

rehire meaning in Bengali

rehire in Bengali

আবার নিয়োগ করা, পুনরায় নিয়োগপ্রাপ্ত প্রাক্তন কর্মচারী

Forms of rehire

Verb
third-person singular presentrehires
present participlerehiring
past participlerehired
pastrehired
alternative formre-hire
Noun
pluralrehires

Past tense of rehire: rehired

Origin of rehire

From re- + hire.

Words that rhyme with rehire

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Questions about rehire

What does rehire mean?
Rehire means to hire again.
What is rehire in Bengali?
Rehire in Bengali is আবার নিয়োগ করা, পুনরায় নিয়োগপ্রাপ্ত প্রাক্তন কর্মচারী. See Rehire meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rehire?
Rehire can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of rehire?
The past tense of rehire is rehired.

Words near rehire in the dictionary

  1. rehingeable
  2. rehinged
  3. rehinges
  4. rehinging
  5. rehings
  6. rehire
  7. rehired
  8. rehires
  9. rehiring
  10. rehirings
  11. rehit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rehire (page history and authors); rehire (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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