Definition of hire

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Hire (n.) To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate..

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Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..
Lodger :: Lodger (n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house..
Mourner :: Mourner (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse..
Thirdings :: Thirdings (n. pl.) The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire..
Farmer :: Farmer (n.) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.
Hackman :: Hackman (n.) The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.
Camphire :: Camphire (n.) An old spelling of Camphor.
Tabler :: Tabler (n.) One who boards others for hire.
Course :: Course (v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire..
Hire :: Hire (n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay..
Venal :: Venal (a.) Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services..
Blue-john :: Blue-john (n.) A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes..
Ayrshire :: Ayrshire (n.) One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk..
Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship..
Hack :: Hack (v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
Bondmaid :: Bondmaid (n.) A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
Asteriated :: Asteriated (a.) Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire..
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