outhire

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ hire.

Verb

outhire (third-person singular simple present outhires, present participle outhiring, simple past and past participle outhired)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To hire out.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     When good was onely for it selfe desyred, / And all men sought their owne, and none no more; / When Iustice was not for most meed outhyred, / But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred.

Anagrams

• hire out