Word for hire for work

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1. hirenoun

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

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

   Antonyms:
   fire

2. hirenoun

   To exchange the services of for remuneration.

   When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.

   Synonyms:
   employment, employ

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1. hire

   In general terms it may be said that to employ is to devote to one’s purpose, to use is to render subservient to one’s purpose; what is used is viewed as more absolutely an instrument than what is employed; a merchant employs a clerk; he uses pen and paper; as a rule, use is not said of persons, except in a degrading sense; as, the conspirators used him as a go-between. Hence the expression common in some religious circles «that God would use me» is not to be commended; it has also the fault of representing the human worker as absolutely a passive and helpless instrument; the phrase is altogether unscriptural; the Scripture says, «We are laborers together with (co-workers with) God.» That which is used is often consumed in the using, or in familiar phrase used up; as, we used twenty tons of coal last winter; in such cases we could not substitute employ. A person may be employed in his own work or in that of another; in the latter case the service is always understood to be for pay. In this connection employ is a word of more dignity than hire; a general is employed in his country’s service; a mercenary adventurer is hired to fight a tyrant’s battles. It is unsuitable, according to present usage, to speak of hiring a pastor; the Scripture, indeed, says of the preacher, «The laborer is worthy of his hire;» but this sense is archaic, and hire now implies that the one hired works directly and primarily for the pay, as expressed in the noun «hireling;» a Pastor is properly said to be called, or when the business side of the transaction is referred to, engaged, or possibly employed, at a certain salary.

   Synonyms:
   call, employ, engage, engross, make use of, use, use up

   Preposition:
   Employ in, on, upon, or about a work, business, etc.; for a purpose; at a stipulated salary.

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1. hirenoun

   a newly hired employee

   «the new hires need special training»

   Antonyms:
   send away, force out, fire, sack, give the sack, dismiss, give notice, displace, give the axe, can, terminate

2. hireverb

   the act of hiring something or someone

   «he signed up for a week’s car hire»

   Antonyms:
   send away, terminate, force out, displace, can, give the sack, sack, give notice, dismiss, give the axe, fire

3. hire, engage, employverb

   engage or hire for work

   «They hired two new secretaries in the department»; «How many people has she employed?»

   Synonyms:
   rent, prosecute, occupy, use, engross, charter, mesh, utilise, operate, employ, absorb, engage, affiance, betroth, lock, take, wage, pursue, lease, utilize, apply, plight, enlist

   Antonyms:
   dismiss, terminate, send away, force out, fire, give the axe, give notice, can, sack, displace, give the sack

4. rent, hire, charter, leaseverb

   hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

   Synonyms:
   employ, take, rent, engage, charter, let, lease

   Antonyms:
   sack, can, terminate, give notice, force out, give the axe, send away, fire, displace, dismiss, give the sack

5. lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, takeverb

   engage for service under a term of contract

   «We took an apartment on a quiet street»; «Let’s rent a car»; «Shall we take a guide in Rome?»

   Synonyms:
   require, read, occupy, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, hold, choose, study, learn, wage, absorb, necessitate, consume, affiance, operate, demand, employ, lock, consider, need, rent, enlist, pick out, remove, aim, plight, contract, adopt, film, fill, pursue, lease, take aim, prosecute, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, drive, let, make, claim, get, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, engross, call for, take in, bring, submit, convey, shoot, engage, direct, charter, contain, subscribe, betroth, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, accept, guide, admit, mesh, ask, conduct

   Antonyms:
   give the sack, can, dismiss, force out, sack, give the axe, terminate, displace, give notice, send away, fire

Matched Categories

1. • Contract
   • Employee
   • Get

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1. List of paraphrases for «hire»:

   hiring, recruit, rental, employ, rent, engage, lease, leasing, recruiting, recruitment, renting, hires, initiate, incur, location, commit, rented

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1. Richard Rose:

   We know that blackballs exist and we believe that this is one of them, for the longest time the NFL would not hire any black quarterbacks so this is just a continuation of that.

2. Jason Bateman:

   Not to belittle it or excuse it or anything, but in the entertainment industry it is incredibly common to have people who are, in quotes,’ difficult,’ and when you’re in a privileged position to hire people, or have an influence in who does get hired, you make phone calls.

3. Parker Conrad:

   We never had enough money—or we were always too cheap—to hire any kind of administrative staff, so [my co-founder] and I were always the ones dealing with sending out offer letters, setting people up on payroll or signing them up for health insurance. It was a couple of hours per month that I deeply resented, i would stop off at Kinko’s on my way home to fax in their insurance applications, because that was the only way to get things in to the insurance company. I remember every time thinking, ‘This is ridiculous. I can’t believe they don’t have systems for this.’.

4. Illinois House:

   This is one of the things that he complained about as a candidate, it’s easy enough for the governor to [instead] come in before the legislature and say ‘I’d like to increase the size of the appropriation in the governor’s office because I want to hire people that I think are qualified, and I’d like to pay them an appropriate salary.’.

5. Marianne Ruggiero:

   It is perfectly acceptable to call it out in real time, name the elephant in the room, it makes the hiring manager feel that if you make a mistake you are self-aware enough to catch yourself and big enough to admit that you’ve made a mistake and will fix it. Wouldn’t you want to hire a person who will handle mistakes that way ?

• أجر, تأجير, استخدم, شغل, استعملArabic
• наемамBulgarian
• llogar, contractarCatalan, Valencian
• najmout, zaměstnatCzech
• ansætteDanish
• einstellen, heuern, Verleih, anstellen, mieten, anwerbenGerman
• contratarSpanish
• työntekijä, palvelus, mennä töihin, palkata, ottaa työhön, teettää, vuokrata, työsuhde, työllistää, palkkautuaFinnish
• employer, engager, louer, recruter, embaucherFrench
• fostaighIrish
• fastachadh, fastaidhScottish Gaelic
• alugarGalician
• किरायाHindi
• mempekerjakanIndonesian
• engajarIdo
• ingaggiare, assumere, assoldare, impiegareItalian
• 雇う, 雇います, 借りる, 雇用Japanese
• conducoLatin
• изнајмува, најмуваMacedonian
• verhuren, huren, werknemer, aanwerven, aanstellen, werk aannemenDutch
• ansetteNorwegian
• zatrudniaćPolish
• contratado, contratar, empregar, empregoPortuguese
• angajaRomanian
• трудоустраивать, брать напрокат, нанимать, взять напрокат, нанять, трудоустроить, НаемRussian
• anställa, hyra, anställdSwedish
• 聘请Chinese

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