(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.
Rehire
Definition:
(v. t.) To hire again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vine's short-notice inspection report on border security checks at Heathrow's terminals 3 and 4, published on Thursday ,says that many of those who are being drafted in are ex-UK Border Agency employees who are being rehired, or staff who have been working elsewhere in the Home Office but have only been given basic training to work on the airport passport desks.
(2) It's been less than a month since Dov Charney was ousted as American Apparel's CEO after numerous accusations of sexual harassment, and now the company has rehired him as a paid "strategic consultant" – and will let him keep his huge salary .
(3) Nor could it say which jobs they had taken when they were rehired.
(4) The producers who oversaw this year's controversial Oscars , including Seth MacFarlane's infamous We Saw Your Boobs opening number, have been rehired for next year's ceremony.
(5) He promised to raise the minimum wage, rehire fired workers and to fight a Greek oligarchy well-known for its corruption and tax evasion.
(6) In any event, this is the problem with politics … politics as usual is wrong.” Nunberg, an associate of veteran operative and Trump adviser Roger Stone, was fired and rehired by Trump in 2014.
(7) • Romania, 15 Apr: Ceahlaul owner Angelo Massone sacks coach Zé Maria, citing “bad results, with no evidence of reliability, commitment, competence or professionalism.” 16 Apr: Rehires him.
(8) A second source close to the talks said that even if a sale was agreed before the Scottish government went into purdah, it might not mean that all of the workforce was rehired immediately.
(9) That's a big disappointment to almost 400 cleaners, whose lawyers had argued that they were fired illegally a year ago and should be rehired.
(10) The story was that Coulson, while editor, had rehired a corrupt private investigator straight out of prison and that this man, Jonathan Rees, was currently on remand on suspicion of sticking an axe in the back of his former business partner's head (the case subsequently collapsed).
(11) Since Crosby was rehired by the Tories in 2012, “He has [again] moved the party to a harsher, Ukip-like position,” says Professor Tim Bale of Queen Mary University of London, a leading historian of the Conservatives.
(12) The Greek Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Greek government today, and suspended a ruling from a lower court that the workers -- who were dismissed last year -- should be rehired.
(13) The fact that Sister Mary has resigned gives us hope that he will soon be rehired,” said student organizer Julia Burns, 18, a senior at Eastside.
(14) We may need to rehire some of these people and that is astonishing."
(15) Manufacturing employment fell for a 19th successive month, albeit at the slowest pace since May 2008 and with some firms starting to rehire because of better sales and rising production.
(16) The shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, said: "It will be utterly galling for nurses who've just had a pay cut from David Cameron to see he's been handing out cheques like confetti to people who have now been rehired.
(17) He said that no other eurozone country could agree to an easing of Greece’s bailout conditions when Syriza was planning to spend precious resources on rehiring civil servants and raising the minimum wage.
(18) After that, ministers announced more measures: the scrapping of fees for prescriptions and hospital visits, the restoration of collective work agreements, the rehiring of workers laid off in the public sector, the granting of citizenship to migrant children born and raised in Greece.
(19) Health minister Dan Poulter said an estimated 3,950 NHS staff were made redundant between May 2010 and November 2013 and subsequently rehired, 2,570 of them having been employed on a permanent basis and 1,380 on fixed-term contracts.
(20) We will rehire the cleaners who were fired from this building,” he said, all guns blazing, as he promised to reinstate the women who have become the face of austerity’s injustice.