Word Finder - hired

definition

To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

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

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• rent

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To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

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The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.

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To exchange the services of for remuneration.

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They hired themselves out as day laborers.  They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.

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To accomplish by paying for services.

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After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.

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To accept employment.

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They hired out as day laborers.

You're a guest, not a hired hand.

He had hired a young law student to track the woman down.

So can I. I got along before I hired you and I think I can manage one meal now.

You said he hired you to come get me.

Maybe sometime she'll feel comfortable with having a hired hand around - or maybe she'll get married again.

I'm the hired help.

So you hired a housekeeper with a professional attitude.

Dean was replenishing the coffee and setting plates for late breakfast arrivals when Maria, their newly hired helper, arrived.

As the hired help, she was supposed to be supportive of Cade without upsetting Claudette.

Had he hired Bordeaux?

Dawkins, Sr. had never hired another mine manager after Josh and never so much as mentioned the Lucky Pup after that time—to his sons or his wife.

Printed brochures, gratis from Myrtle Somebody whose brother-in-law was a printer, were placed about town by tiny Tonya, an eight-year-old Latina waif hired by Fred for five bucks.

It was a new one, recently made by the Ancient Immortal that Gabriel hired to help, indicating another of his dealers had defected.

So why had he really hired Allen?

Why Pete hired you instead of a man, I'll never understand.

Darian, who had willingly hired a sailboat and sailed straight into a tropical storm.

Two bravos were hired (one of them named Olimpio, according to Bertolotti, was probably Beatrice's lover), and Francesco was assassinated while asleep in his castle of Petrella in the kingdom of Naples (1598).

If the man who stabbed him hadn't admitted that she hired him for the purpose of being friendly toward Carmen only, Lori would be behind bars now.

I asked about a private detective—God knows how I would pay— but she said a hired person wouldn't be seen as objective.

Would recommend to anyone without a moments hesitation, by far the best holiday property I have hired.

Matthew 20 records a parable Jesus told about a householder who hired laborers for his vineyard.

Moon, now stark naked, sought to escape in the band's hired limousine.

Two sets were hired in GNER black and the reserve set, shown here speeding past Colton, retained standard Eurostar livery.

They cost 5 livres per skill point per week, but must be hired for at least one month.

Exploiting this interval, the US fishing industry hired lobbyists with access to top members of Congress.

Meanwhile, Mitchell the psychic is giving the parents of the missing girl further reason for thinking they've hired a complete loon.

In April Mayer Brown & Platt hired two masons ' partners, Nigel Weiss and Steven Janes.

The able poor were to be set to work doing fairly menial duties such as hemp picking or could be hired out.

I still rode on toward the north, alone with one hired muleteer, a simple soul.

So we hired a nanny, and I finished my first book in just three months.

Unlike her mother, however, she hired a full-time nanny, a person she refers to as a ' servant ' .

Apparently oblivious to the obvious contradiction, the parents hired a lawyer to argue their case in court!

Susan Coles hired a photographer to work with the group.

The companion piece purchasing hired car disclose up front.

How many people knew anything about their boss before they were hired?

They'll clean up the brush and …" "You hired them?"

Actually, he had done a pretty good job of humiliating her in front of her guest and hired help.

Clarissa could fill in until someone could be hired.

Ingrid hired an interior decorator when he leased the condo a few months ago.

A quick peek into her mind informed him that April Madera – the personal assistant Ingrid hired – was storming off while the Natural Jessi remained.

Despite the multitude of slaves, hired labour was often needed, especially at harvest.

Ships, whose tonnage was estimated at the amount of grain they could carry, were continually hired for the transport of all kinds of goods.

They soon appeared under their own captains, who hired them out to the highest bidder, or marched them on marauding expeditions up and down the less protected districts.

With some associates he hired a room in the neighbouring Cato Street, collected arms and made ready to fall upon Harrowby's guests.

The constables of these castles had adopted the custom of compelling these landholders to give money and not service, mercenaries being then hired to perform this.

By this time the rising had attained the dimensions of a revolution; all the feudal levies of the kingdom were called out against it; and mercenaries were hired in haste from Venice, Bohemia and the emperor.

Finally, in the Baltic provinces nearly all the land belongs to the German landlords, who either farm the land themselves, with hired labourers, or let it in small farms. Only one-fourth of the peasants are farmers, the remainder being mere labourers, who are emigrating in great numbers.

This change led to the gradual disappearance of tenants in villeinage - the villeins and cottiers - and the rise on the one hand of the small independent farmer, on the other of the hired labourer.

If during the continuance of the letting, the thing hired is entirely destroyed by accident, the lease is cancelled.

Antonius the orator was elected without opposition; the other government candidate, Gaius Memmius, who seemed to have the better chance of success, was beaten to death by the hired agents of Saturninus and Glaucia, while the voting was actually going on.