Definition of hire

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Hire (n.) 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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Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs..
Washerwoman :: Washerwoman (n.) A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others..
Tinkershire :: Tinkershire (n.) Alt. of Tinkl.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse..
Location :: Location (n.) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire..
Camphire :: Camphire (n.) An old spelling of Camphor.
Day-labor :: Day-labor (n.) Labor hired or performed by the day.
Hireling :: Hireling (n.) One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary..
Derbyshire Spar :: Derbyshire spar () A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work..
Hire :: Hire (n.) 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..
Chiretta :: Chiretta (n.) A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge..
Service :: Service (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love..
Started :: Starstone (n.) Asteriated sapphire.
Lodger :: Lodger (n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house..
Hack :: Hack (v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
Job :: "Job (v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage..
Hack :: Hack (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Let :: Let (v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses..
Reeve :: Reeve (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc..
Epichirema :: Epichirema (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner..
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