(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.
Rent
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Rend
(v. i.) To rant.
() imp. & p. p. of Rend.
(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(2) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(4) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(5) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(6) Lucy Morton, a senior partner at WA Ellis in Knightsbridge, says most foreign students want one-bed flats at up to £1,000 a week and they often pay the whole year's rent up front.
(7) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
(8) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(9) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
(10) Karzai had come under criticism in the past from Afghans for renting the property to international officials.
(11) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
(12) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
(13) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
(14) To some extent, housing associations have taken their place, but affordable, social rented homes have been sold off more quickly than they have been replaced.
(15) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(16) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
(17) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(18) The average rents in social housing meanwhile increased by 6.1% from £88.90 to £94.30 a week.
(19) The scheme, which will be completed in 2016-17, comprises 491 homes for social rent and 300 for private sale.
(20) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.