hire
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hīr, hīʹər, IPA(key): /haɪə/, /ˈhaɪə/
- (General American) enPR: hīr, hīʹər, IPA(key): /haɪɹ/, /ˈhaɪɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
- Homophone: higher
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“payment”), from the verb *hūʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hūzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).
Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).
NounEdit
hire (plural hires)
- Payment for the temporary use of something.
- The sign offered pedalos on hire.
- (obsolete) Reward, payment.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], lines 682-83:
- I have five hundred crowns,
The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 10:7:
- The labourer is worthy of his hire.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
- The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
- When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
- A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
- We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
SynonymsEdit
- (state of being hired): employment, employ
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English hiren, hyren, from Old English hȳrian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”).
Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”).
VerbEdit
hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)
- (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- Synonym: rent
- We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- “ […] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- Synonym: rent
- 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage of hiring compared with owning, but it is evident that the savage owns his shelter because it costs so little, while the civilized man hires his commonly because he cannot afford to own it; nor can he, in the long run, any better afford to hire.
- (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
- (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- They hired themselves out as day laborers. They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
- (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
- After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
- (intransitive) To accept employment.
- They hired out as day laborers.
- (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
- They hired a milkshake.
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | (to) hire | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | hire | hired | |
2nd-person singular | hire, hirest† | hired, hiredst† | |
3rd-person singular | hires, hireth† | hired | |
plural | hire | ||
subjunctive | hire | hired | |
imperative | hire | — | |
participles | hiring | hired |
AntonymsEdit
- (to employ): fire
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
AbronEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Akan hyire (“white clay”).
NounEdit
hire
ReferencesEdit
- Trutenau, Languages of the Akan Area: Papers in Western Kwa Linguistics (1976)
BasqueEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
hire
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
hire
Middle DutchEdit
ContractionEdit
hire
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-West Germanic *heʀā, *hiʀā, from Proto-Germanic *hezōz, genitive feminine singular of *hiz (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here; this”).
Alternative formsEdit
DeterminerEdit
hire (nominative pronoun sche)
- Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner: her, of her.
- Used in place of the possessive suffix -es to denote possession by an antecedent noun.
- 1430, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.”, in Canterbury Tales:
- Here begynnyt the wyf of bathe hir tale.
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SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
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singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 |
min | ||
2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 |
þin | |||
3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 |
him | his | his hisen | |
f | sche, heo | hire heo |
hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
n | hit | hit him2 |
his, hit | — | |||
dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 |
hem | here | here heres, heren | |
bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
PronounEdit
hire (nominative sche)
- Third-person singular feminine genitive pronoun: hers.
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “hir, pron.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-West Germanic *heʀē, *hiʀē, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi, dative feminine singular of *hiz (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here; this”).
PronounEdit
hire (nominative sche)
- Third-person singular feminine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: her.
- (reflexive) herself.
- Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
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singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 |
min | ||
2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 |
þin | |||
3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 |
him | his | his hisen | |
f | sche, heo | hire heo |
hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
n | hit | hit him2 |
his, hit | — | |||
dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 |
hem | here | here heres, heren | |
bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
ReferencesEdit
- “hir(e), pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.
Etymology 3Edit
From Old English hȳr, from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique cases.
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hire (plural hires)
- One's salary; wages.
- A reward; recompense.
- Synonym: mede
- One's deserts; what one deserves.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Petre ·ii· 2:15, page 113v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- […] þat foꝛſaken þe riȝt weie .· ⁊ erriden ſuynge þe weie of balaam of boſoꝛ / which louyde þe hire of wickidneſſe
- […] who've abandoned the right way and strayed, following the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the fruits of wrongdoing.
- A payment; a charge.
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “hīr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
hire
- Alternative form of here (“army”)
Etymology 5Edit
VerbEdit
hire
- Alternative form of hiren (“to hire”)
Norwegian NynorskEdit
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