transcription, транскрипция: [ haɪə(r) ]
( hires, hiring, hired)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you hire someone, you employ them or pay them to do a particular job for you.
Sixteen of the contestants have hired lawyers and are suing the organisers...
The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts...
He will be in charge of all hiring and firing at PHA.
...the mystery assassin (who turned out to be a hired killer).
VERB : V n , V , V-ing , V-ed
2.
If you hire something, you pay money to the owner so that you can use it for a period of time. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use rent )
To hire a car you must produce a passport and a current driving licence...
Her hired car was found abandoned at Beachy Head.
VERB : V n , V-ed
3.
You use hire to refer to the activity or business of hiring something. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use rental )
They booked our hotel, and organised car hire...
N-UNCOUNT : usu n N , N of n , N n
4.
If something is for hire , it is available for you to hire. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use for rent )
Fishing tackle is available for hire.
PHRASE : usu v-link PHR