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If you h___ someone, you employ them or pay them to do a particular job for you.If you hire someone, you employ them or pay them to do a particular job for you.
Sixteen of the contestants have hired lawyers and are suing the organisers.
The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts.
He will be in charge of all hiring and firing at PHA.
...the mystery assassin (who turned out to be a hired killer).
word hire
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verb
If you hire someone, you employ them or pay them to do a particular job for you.
Sixteen of the contestants have hired lawyers and are suing the organisers.
The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts.
He will be in charge of all hiring and firing at PHA.
...the mystery assassin (who turned out to be a hired killer).
If you hire something, you pay money to the owner so that you can use it for a period of time.
To hire a car you must produce a passport and a current driving licence.
Her hired car was found abandoned at Beachy Head.
noun
You use hire to refer to the activity or business of hiring something.
They booked our hotel, and organised car hire.
Hire of skis, boots and clothing, are all available.
...a day's outing by hire car to the southern coast of Crete.
inflections hireshiringhired
cefr-level B1

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