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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Hire :: Hire (n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward..
Hackney :: Hackney (n.) A horse or pony kept for hire.
Cottier :: Cottier (n.) In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm..
Gothamist :: Gothamist (n.) A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders..
Livery Stable :: Livery stable () A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g)..
Water Sapphire :: Water sapphire () A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau..
Retain :: Retain (v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse..
Hackman :: Hackman (n.) The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.
Barmote :: Barmote (n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire..
Let :: Let (v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Soke :: Soke (n.) One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided..
Hack :: Hack (n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses..
Samphire :: Samphire (n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.
Wage :: Wage (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs..
Devonian :: Devonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system..
Help :: Help (v. t.) A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business..
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