Complete Definition of "hire"

English

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-hire.ogg|Audio (US)

Homophones
higher

Verb
en-verb|hir|ing

  1. To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

#: We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.

  1. To obtain the services of a person by giving them a job.

#: The company had problems to hire sufficiently skilled workers.

Antonyms
to fire (2)

Translations

Dutch: aanwerven (2), aanstellen (2)
Finnish: palkata (2)
French: recruter (2)
German: mieten (1 other than person), anwerben (2)
Italian: noleggiare (1), assumere (2)
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Kurdish: KUchar|�اگرت�
Portuguese: contratar (1)
Russian: t|ru|нанима��|trnanimát' impf, t|ru|нан���|trnan'át' pf (2)
Spanish: emplear
Swedish: anställa (2)

Related terms
employ

Pronoun
hire

  1. yours

Category:Basque language

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