Definitions
the act of hiring something or someone
Word origin
From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“payment”), from the verb *hūʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hūzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs- or *kweHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).
Used in a sentence
“We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.”
“Employment statistics, the other key indicator of Diversity & Inclusion performance, shows that almost 30% of new Southeastern hires are women.”
“When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Take on staff”4 letters
02“Employ”4 letters
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