英:[haɪrd]
美:[haɪrd]
英:[haɪrd]
美:[haɪrd]
noun
payment for the temporary use of something
payment for labor or personal services : wages
the act or an instance of hiring (see hire entry 2)
laws regarding the hire of workers
the state of being hired : employment
British rental—often used attributivelya hire car
the hire of equipment
one who is hired
starting wage for the new hires
verb
transitive verb
to engage the personal services of for a set sum
hire a crew
to engage the temporary use of for a fixed sum
hire a hall
to grant the personal services of or temporary use of for a fixed sum
hire themselves out
to get done for pay
hire the mowing done
intransitive verb
to take employment
hire out as a guide during the tourist season
hired hand雇工;农场工人
Noun and Verb Middle English, from Old English hȳr; akin to Old Saxon hūria hire
The first known use of hire was before the 12th century
histaminenoun
a compound that occurs in many animal tissues and plays an important part in allergic reactions (as in hives, asthma, and hay fever)
histinterjection
—used to attract attention
hissverb
to make a long sharp sound like that of the speech sound \s\ or that made by an alarmed animal (as a snake or cat) usually as a sign of disapproval
hissed them off the stage
hissverb
to make a long sharp sound like that of the speech sound \s\ or that made by an alarmed animal (as a snake or cat) usually as a sign of disapproval
hissed them off the stage
his1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or belonging to him or himself his writings
his house
his2 of 2pronoun
his one : his ones
the book is his
hirsuteadjective
hairy sense 1
covered with coarse stiff hairs
a hirsute leaf
hire1 of 2noun
payment for temporary use
payment for services : wages
the act of hiring
the state of being hired : employment
hire2 of 2verb
employ entry 1 sense 2
hire a new crew
to get the temporary use of for a set sum
hire a hall
to take a job
hired out as a cook
hire1 of 2noun
payment for temporary use
payment for services : wages
the act of hiring
the state of being hired : employment
hire2 of 2verb
employ entry 1 sense 2
hire a new crew
to get the temporary use of for a set sum
hire a hall
to take a job
hired out as a cook
hirelingnoun
a person who works for wages and usually for no other reason
hire1 of 2noun
payment for temporary use
payment for services : wages
the act of hiring
the state of being hired : employment
hire2 of 2verb
employ entry 1 sense 2
hire a new crew
to get the temporary use of for a set sum
hire a hall
to take a job
hired out as a cook
1 He avoided our company, preferring to spend his time with his drinking companions, mostly hired men from the less reputable theatre companies.
2 Baba hired the same nursing woman who had fed me to nurse Hassan.
3 “Putting yourself on display. Trying to make that boy whom I hired to take care of some projects around here—projects your father never has time for—you're trying to make him notice you.”
4 “You good-for-nothing! You were only hired because your brother works at the desk!”
5 Councilman Grandy indignantly denied that the money was a bribe from the pancake people; then he rushed out and hired the most expensive defense lawyer in Fort Myers.
6 He ordered laborers hired by the city, called scavengers, to clean the streets of decaying garbage and dead animals, since their vile smell might well be causing the disease.
7 I was hired to sell a miracle vegetable chopper on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
8 She hired a local woman named Minnie whose sole job was washing the laboratory glassware using the only product Margaret would allow: Gold Dust Twins soap.
9 A bunch of surly security trolls had been hired to guard her.
10 Millet hired actors to play Columbus and his captains; the crew would consist of the men who had sailed the ships to Chicago.
11 The hired carriage was dismissed.
雇来的马车被打发走了。
12 “When I first hired you, all I wanted to do was stop a hacker whom I knew was trying to stop me. I didn’t know that...”
13 Pete was seventeen and the hired boy around their farm—picking cotton, cutting cane, chores like that.
14 The next step for those applicants who are hired at a call center is the training program, which they are paid to attend.
15 I had overheard my parents say that The Ancestors were due in town today with a famous big city lawyer they had hired.
16 He planned to install the kiln in the basement and hired a bricklayer named Joseph E. Berkler to do the job.
17 "So you feel you're ready to move from prentice to hired man. Are you quite certain you've learned everything you need to know?"
18 When Mom called the taxi company, the owner told her that he’d hired a new driver the day my father got arrested.
19 Emma and Charles’s son George came; he had hired the medium, a Mr. Williams.
20 Mercenary fighters were nonmembers hired on short-term contracts to help the gang fight turf wars.