HIRED

chartered, hired, leased

(adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers; “a chartered plane”; “the chartered buses arrived on time”

hired

(adjective) having services engaged for a fee; “hired hands”; “a hired gun”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

hired

simple past tense and past participle of hire

Anagrams

• hider, rehid, rheid

Source: Wiktionary

HIRE

Hire, pron. [Obs.]

Definition: See Here, pron. Chaucer.

Hire, n. Etym: [OE. hire, hure, AS. h; akin to D.huur, G. heuer, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra.]

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. (Law.)

Definition: 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.

Syn.

– Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.

Hire, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hired; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiring.] Etym: [OE. hiren, huren, AS. h; akin to D. huren, G. heuern, Dan. hyre, Sw. hyra. See Hire, n.]

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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