Definition of Hire

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Definition of Hire

Hire

See Here, pron.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Hire Quotations

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Lou Holtz

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.
Rush Limbaugh

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
David Ogilvy

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
Lee Iacocca

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
William J. Clinton

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David Bowie

You're only as good as the people you hire.
Ray Kroc

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
Soichiro Honda

You can't hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Hire Translations

hire in Afrikaans is huur
hire in Danish is hyre
hire in Dutch is aannemen, aanwerven, huren
hire in Finnish is palkata, vuokrata
hire in French is embaucher, louer
hire in German is Entgelt, mieten, leihen
hire in Latin is conduco
hire in Norwegian is ansette, leie
hire in Swedish is hyra, uthyrning, leja

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