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Hire
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. 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. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 7.
2. 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. Story.
Synonyms: Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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. They . . . have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Sam. ii. 5.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: pronoun (pron.)
See Here, pron. Chaucer.