Definition of hire

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Hire (n.) To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time..

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Tabler :: Tabler (n.) One who boards others for hire.
Yorkshire :: Yorkshire (n.) A county in the north of England.
Retain :: Retain (v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor..
Journeyman :: "Journeyman (n.) Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman..
Affreight :: Affreight (v. t.) To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight..
Stand :: Stand (v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand..
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..
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..
Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
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..
Domestic :: Domestic (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant..
Hires :: Hires (pron.) Alt. of Hir.
Service :: Service (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love..
Sapphirine :: Sapphirine (n.) Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire..
Samphire :: Samphire (n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles..
Wages :: Wages (n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2..
Asterism :: Asterism (n.) An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica..
Salamstone :: Salamstone (n.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.
Location :: Location (n.) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire..
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