(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
(2) A team of 16 guides has been hired and trained to give a running commentary on their every move.
(3) China Labor Watch says Samsung is also guilty of bad hiring and working practices.
(4) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
(5) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
(6) As in Utah, the public sector led the way in response to recession, this time in the early 1990s, by hiring new staff on 80% contracts.
(7) These folk spend in a day what most people earn in a year on hiring hotel suites and setting up temporary fashion-show rooms in the hysterical hope that their wares will attract the eye of that most important person in town that week: the celebrity stylist.
(8) Writers are being hired on new US shows on the basis of their consistently hilarious Twitter accounts (such as Alison Agosti and Bryan Donaldson for Seth Meyers) and where producers Stateside lead, ours are guaranteed to follow.
(9) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
(10) A year after hiring, many relationships were found, including professional actual situation with job satisfaction (r = 0.26, P less than 0.05) and alienation with job satisfaction (r = -0.33, P less than 0.01).
(11) Kenyon then moved to Chelsea, where he and Mendes negotiated Mourinho’s hiring as the new manager, the signings of Carvalho and Ferreira to join him from Porto, and Tiago Mendes, from Benfica.
(12) The company hired reputation management lawyers to issue a five-page letter instructing the articles "be amended to reflect the true position".
(13) Funding policies as well as chairmen's hiring policies also play a role here.
(14) The architects, whose initials stand for Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall, said Goodwin had been hired for his international experience.
(15) The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn’t even hire a lawyer to defend myself.” He took a lie detector and passed, Allen said, but Mia Farrow declined to do so.
(16) I wonder, then, if she could tell us whether she believes that the very low bar of being willing to hire women is an indication of anything other than following anti-discrimination laws.
(17) The South Africans were allegedly hired by a company with close ties to Gaddafi, training his presidential guard and handling some of his offshore financial dealings.
(18) Twitter has hired the former Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino to be the first woman on its board, after critics rounded on its all-male lineup.
(19) Since then, the percentage of female FTSE 100 directors has grown from 12.5% to 17.3%, but the increase has been almost entirely driven by companies hiring more part-time non-executives.
(20) In August 2007, just three months after quitting BP, he was hired by New York-based energy investment group Riverstone Holdings to run its European business.
Hive
Definition:
(n.) A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
(n.) The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
(n.) A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
(v. t.) To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.
(v. t.) To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
(3) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(4) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
(5) If bees from a second hive were allowed to forage at both control sites, however, recruits from the experimental hive, while orienting to these sites, exhibited no evidence of having used any distance information they might have received before leaving their parent hive.
(6) immunoglobulin E-mediated hay fever, asthma, eczema, hives) was examined in a nonclinical sample of 379 college students.
(7) Last month, the new TSB bank, hived off from Lloyds to increase competition in retail banking, was established with its headquarters in London, despite being founded in Scotland .
(8) It’s their winter food, for feeding the 10,000-strong colony in the hive when it’s too cold to fly.
(9) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
(10) For Hartnett, the new challenge is "re-structuring", by which firms hive off key elements of their trade to tax havens in Switzerland.
(11) Another, keen to make good on the advantage, was said to be a "hive of activity" in the days directly leading up to the inspection.
(12) For instance, the acute symptoms of allergy and asthma such as sneezing, bronchospasm and hives are believed to be largely the result of mediator release from mast cells whereas chronic symptoms (the result of allergic inflammation) can be explained on the basis of eosinophil-mediated tissue damage.
(13) After a few weeks, the hive had stabilised again, with around half of the old foragers now working as nurse bees.
(14) Symptoms include hives, skin eruptions, abdominal pain, perianal pruitis, diarrhea, and pneumonitis.
(15) If you want to go far, go together.” Teddy Ruge is the co-founder of Hive Colab , an innovation hub in Kampala, Uganda .
(16) Even so, King outlined a range of ideas that could involve a radical restructuring of the industry, including hiving off safe deposits from riskier assets.
(17) While some worker bees remain at home, others take flight in search of nectar, pollen and other hive essentials.
(18) Eosinophil counts (range, 4002 to 37,350 cells per cubic millimeter) increased in association with the onset of hives and decreased to baseline levels after their resolution.
(19) Risk declined with the total number of specific allergies reported (p less than 0.001), and was reduced in relation to a history of prior asthma, eczema and hives.
(20) Hives consistently began at the end of menses and lasted for 1 to 2 weeks.