Usually means: Employ someone for a job.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hire, hire, hire: Wordnik
  7. hire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hire, hire: Wiktionary
  9. hire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hire: Dictionary.com
  13. hire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Hire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hire: Rhymezone
  19. hire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hire: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. hire: Free Dictionary
  23. hire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hire: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hire: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. hire: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. hire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. hire: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. HIRE: Acronym Finder
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  4. hire: Idioms

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  1. The Hire: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
noun:  (uncountable) Payment for the temporary use of something.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Reward.
verb:  (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
verb:  (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
verb:  (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
verb:  (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
verb:  (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
verb:  (intransitive) To accept employment.
verb:  (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
noun:  A surname.

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