Hire

Definition:

(pron.) See Here, pron.
(n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.
(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.
(n.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.
(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.
(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.

Compare hire with other words:

charter vs. hire

contract vs. hire

bailment vs. hire

affreight vs. hire

hackneyman vs. hire

affreighter vs. hire

hire vs. retain

employee vs. hire

freight vs. hire

engage vs. hire

appoint vs. hire

hire vs. recruit

hire vs. rehire

hire vs. hireling

fraught vs. hire

hackney vs. hire

hire vs. remuneration

hire vs. service

employ vs. hire

hire vs. obtain

cohort vs. hire

hire vs. payment

employment vs. hire