Another word for hire
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Verb
To obtain the use or services of
- To engage the attention or activity of; occupy:
- To provide work and pay for
- To provide work to (someone) for pay:
- To assume an obligation; agree.
- To enter or bring into conflict with:
- To involve oneself or become occupied; participate:
- To require (a student) to repeat a class or grade because of insufficient educational progress to advance.
- To keep in a particular place or condition:
- To continue to practice, use, etc.
Idioms:To engage the temporary use of (something) for a fee
- To hire (a bus or airplane, for example) for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.
- To hire or lease by charter:
- To hire or lease by charter
- To give by a lease; let
- To get by a lease; take a lease on
- To grant use or occupation of under the terms of a contract.
- To be for rent:
- To get temporary possession and use of (a house, land, etc.) by paying rent
- To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments:
To give temporary use of in return for payment.
- To cause to; make:
- Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a warning or threat:
- To rent or lease:
- To lease or let a place or thing
- To give temporary possession and use of in return for the payment of rent or a fee; lease or let
- To be leased or let for rent or a fee
See also:
Noun
The act of employing for wages
- The number or percentage of persons gainfully employed
- (Archaic) Purpose to which something is put
- The thing at which one is employed; work; occupation; profession; job
- A promise; pledge
- The action of engaging or the state of being engaged:
- The condition of being in gear:
The state of being employed
- The state of being employed:
- (Archaic) Work or occupation
- The state of being employed, esp. for pay; paid service; employment
- The number or percentage of persons gainfully employed
- An employing or being employed
- The thing at which one is employed; work; occupation; profession; job
See also:Payment for work done
- (Psychology) Behavior that develops either consciously or unconsciously to offset a real or imagined deficiency, as in personality or physical ability.
- Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss.
- Payment for services; esp., wages or remuneration
- Payment for an office or employment; compensation.
- Gain from employment or position; payment received for work; salary, wages, fees, etc.
- Payment asked or given for professional services, admissions, licenses, tuition, etc.; charge
- A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege:
- A charge for professional services:
- Money paid, esp. for work or services; wages or salary
- Recompense or reward:
- Paid employment:
- The act of remunerating.
- Something, such as a payment, that remunerates.
- That which remunerates; reward; pay; recompense; compensation
- Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis.
- A fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance
- A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance.
- Any periodic payment, as a pension or allowance
- The price of labor in an economy.
- (Econ.) The share of the total product of industry that goes to labor, as distinguished from the share taken by capital
- Money paid to an employee for work done, and usually figured on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis
See also:One who is employed by another
- A person hired by another, or by a business firm, etc., to work for wages or salary
- (Usually pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence
- One who works solely for compensation, especially a person willing to perform for a fee tasks considered menial or offensive.
- (Usually pejorative) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself
- A member of the working class.
- (Computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
- A person, animal, or thing that works; specif., a person who is employed to do physical or mental work for wages, esp. in order to earn a living, as in a trade, industry, business, office, etc. or on a farm, ranch, etc.
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Another word for hire
Verb
To employ
- To draw into; involve:
- To require the use of; occupy:
- To arrange for the use of; reserve:
- To select from a group for placement on a sports team.
- To create by thinking and writing; compose:
- To choose or take for some special purpose, as compulsory military service, by drawing from a group
- To be in force or in effect; prevail
- To succeed in gaining possession of as the result of planning or endeavor; acquire.
- To get possession of, esp. by some effort; procure
- To bring about; effect:
- To protect or ensure the privacy or secrecy of (a telephone line, for example).
- To get hold or possession of; obtain; acquire
- To engage (persons or a person) for service in the armed forces.
- To join or support a cause or movement
- To win the support of; get the help or services of
- To cause to begin working.
- To engage or employ the attention or concentration of:
- To take up or fill up (space, time, etc.)
- To dwell or reside in (an apartment, for example).
- To put or bring into action or service; employ for or apply to a given purpose
- To take or consume for a purpose:
- To avail oneself of; practice:
- To set (a date, place, etc.); decide upon officially; decree
- (Law) To decide the disposition of (property) by special authority
- (Law) To direct the disposition of (property) to a person or persons in exercise of a power granted for this purpose by a preceding deed.
- To authorize and send (another person) as one's representative.
- To send or appoint as a representative or deputy
- To entrust (authority, power, etc.) to a person acting as one's agent or representative
- To keep in a particular place or condition:
- To require (a student) to repeat a class or grade because of insufficient educational progress to advance.
- To continue to practice, use, etc.
- To authorize or engage (someone to do something):
- To give power or authority to; authorize
- To give an order for (a thing to be made or done)
- To afford a basis for expecting:
- To afford a basis for expectation:
- (Archaic) To pledge to give in marriage
- To give ability to; enable; permit
- To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
- To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
- To record in a book; list
- (--- Sports) To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
- To arrange for or purchase (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
- To put to use, especially to make profitable or effective use of:
- To make a selection; choose
- To take as a choice from among several; pick out.
- To choose or pick out from among others, as for excellence, desirability, etc.
- To break up, separate, or detach by means of a sharp pointed instrument.
- To select or choose, esp. in a careful or fussy manner
- To use a pick
- To accept tentative membership in (a fraternity, etc.)
- To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise:
- To promise to join (a fraternity or similar organization).
- To request: bespeak a favor.
- To engage, hire, or order in advance:
- To be or give a sign of; indicate:
- To get, acquire, or incur
- To become reduced in size or bulk; draw together; shrink; narrow; shorten
- To hire (a person, business, etc.) to perform under contract
- To bring about; effect:
- To obtain sexual partners for others.
- To get or bring about by some effort; obtain; secure
- To employ to the greatest possible advantage:
- To make use of; turn to account; utilize productively
- To use for one’s own advantage.
- To keep in stock; offer for sale:
- To hold the neck and head in a certain way. Used of a horse.
- To sing (a melody, for example) on key:
To let
- To cause to; make:
- Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a warning or threat:
- To rent or lease:
- To lease or let a place or thing
- To give temporary possession and use of in return for the payment of rent or a fee; lease or let
- To be leased or let for rent or a fee
- To grant use or occupation of under the terms of a contract.
- To get or hold by such a contract.
- To give by a lease; let
- To hire or lease by charter:
- To hire (a bus or airplane, for example) for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.
- To hire or lease by charter
Synonym Study
- Charter implies the hiring or leasing of a ship, bus, etc.
- Rent implies payment of a specific amount, often at fixed intervals, for hiring or letting a house, land, equipment, a vehicle, etc.
- Lease implies the letting or the hiring of property (usually real property) by written contract
- To hire , in strict usage, means to get, and let means to give the use of something in return for payment, although hire, which is also applied to persons or their services, may be used in either sense to hire a hall, a worker, etc., rooms to let
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