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DEFINITIONS OF: hire

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v engage or hire for work

“They hired two new secretaries in the department”
Synonyms:
employ, engage
Antonyms:
can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
Types:
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featherbed
hire more workers than are necessary
fill
appoint someone to (a position or a job)
engage
ask to represent; of legal counsel
ship
hire for work on a ship
contract, sign, sign on, sign up
engage by written agreement
rat
employ scabs or strike breakers in
farm out, job, subcontract
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
contract out
assign a job to someone outside one's own business

v engage for service under a term of contract

Synonyms:
charter, engage, lease, rent, take
Type of:
acquire, get
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

v hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Synonyms:
charter, lease, rent
Type of:
contract, undertake
enter into a contractual arrangement

n the act of hiring something or someone

“he signed up for a week's car hire”
Type of:
act, deed, human action, human activity
something that people do or cause to happen

n a newly hired employee

“the new hires need special training”
Type of:
employee
a worker who is hired to perform a job
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