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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.

Retire


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
  • (v. t.) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
  • (v. t.) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
  • (v. i.) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
  • (v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
  • (v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
  • (n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
  • (n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
  • (2) He was very touched that President Nicolas Sarkozy came out to the airport to meet us, even after Madiba retired.
  • (3) The authors studied 84 randomly selected participants who live in retirement communities to discover factors leading to successful completion of a wellness enhancing program.
  • (4) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
  • (5) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
  • (6) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
  • (7) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
  • (8) Nearly half do not plan to retire from medical work.
  • (9) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
  • (10) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
  • (11) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
  • (12) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (13) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
  • (14) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
  • (15) The analysis of four surveys on elder people shows that health, income, social integration, knowledge about aging, plans for retirement, good ecological conditions, life satisfaction, and a low age seem to be general resources.
  • (16) The study population included 59 active workers (81 percent participation in this group) and 29 workers who were retired or inactive due to illness (69% participation).
  • (17) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
  • (18) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
  • (19) downward occupational and downward social drift, premature retirement and achievement of the expected social development.
  • (20) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.

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