hire
1. a newly hired employee
- the new hires need special training
• Hypernyms:
employee
2. the act of hiring something or someone
- he signed up for a week's car hire
• Hypernyms:
act, deed, human action, human activity
1. engage or hire for work (Freq. 33)
- They hired two new secretaries in the department
- How many people has she employed?
• Syn:
engage, employ
• Ant:
fire
• Derivationally related forms:
employ (for: employ), employment (for: employ), employee (for: employ), employer (for: employ), engagement (for: engage), hirer
• Hyponyms:
featherbed, fill, engage, ship, sign,
sign, sign on, sign up, rat, subcontract,
farm out, job
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. hold under a lease or rental agreement;
of goods and services (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
rent, charter, lease
• Derivationally related forms:
lease (for: lease), lessee (for: lease), charter (for: charter), rent (for: rent), renter (for: rent)
• Hypernyms:
contract, undertake
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
3. engage for service under a term of contract
- We took an apartment on a quiet street
- Let's rent a car
- Shall we take a guide in Rome?
• Syn:
lease, rent, charter, engage, take
• Derivationally related forms:
charter (for: charter), rent (for: rent), renter (for: rent), rental (for: rent), lease (for: lease)
• Hypernyms:
get, acquire
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
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