(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.
Taxi
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(2) The two main taxi associations said 100% of their members had parked their cars for the day in an effort to raise awareness over what they called unfair competition.
(3) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
(4) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
(5) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
(6) Mutants in malF and malK are defective in maltose transport at low concentrations as well as high concentrations, as previously shown, but are essentially normal in maltose taxis.
(7) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
(8) Taxis will still accept customers hailing them from the street.
(9) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
(10) SpaceX is among four firms vying to build space taxis to fly astronauts, tourists and non-Nasa researchers.
(11) Gilbride, now a taxi driver in Stirling, has refused to comment.
(12) A taxi driver in the Dominican Republic, when shown a picture of Brown, said: "I picked him up from a Thomson flight three months ago.
(13) They had been drinking and he persuaded her back to the hotel and said he’d get her a taxi home.
(14) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
(15) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
(16) Yadav’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had dozed off in a taxi while returning home from dinner.
(17) Many are first- or second-generation immigrants from places such as Afghanistan, Poland, Somalia and Nigeria eager to sign up to drive for the US tech company, whose phone-based minicab-hailing app has transformed the taxi industry in 58 countries.
(18) A business trip to New York in November 2006, in which Bennett spent £315.16 staying at the W Hotel in Manhattan, saw her claim £2.49 for a taxi to check in to the hotel following a board meeting and £2.49 for one because she was "carrying bags and confidential paperwork".
(19) Almost all taxi and private hire drivers have been self-employed for decades before our app existed and with Uber they have more control.
(20) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.