Synonyms for hire
haɪərhire

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1. hirenoun

   To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

   The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.

   Antonyms:
   fire

2. hirenoun

   To exchange the services of for remuneration.

   When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.

   Synonyms:
   employment, employ

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1. hire

   In general terms it may be said that to employ is to devote to one's purpose, to use is to render subservient to one's purpose; what is used is viewed as more absolutely an instrument than what is employed; a merchant employs a clerk; he uses pen and paper; as a rule, use is not said of persons, except in a degrading sense; as, the conspirators used him as a go-between. Hence the expression common in some religious circles "that God would use me" is not to be commended; it has also the fault of representing the human worker as absolutely a passive and helpless instrument; the phrase is altogether unscriptural; the Scripture says, "We are laborers together with (co-workers with) God." That which is used is often consumed in the using, or in familiar phrase used up; as, we used twenty tons of coal last winter; in such cases we could not substitute employ. A person may be employed in his own work or in that of another; in the latter case the service is always understood to be for pay. In this connection employ is a word of more dignity than hire; a general is employed in his country's service; a mercenary adventurer is hired to fight a tyrant's battles. It is unsuitable, according to present usage, to speak of hiring a pastor; the Scripture, indeed, says of the preacher, "The laborer is worthy of his hire;" but this sense is archaic, and hire now implies that the one hired works directly and primarily for the pay, as expressed in the noun "hireling;" a Pastor is properly said to be called, or when the business side of the transaction is referred to, engaged, or possibly employed, at a certain salary.

   Synonyms:
   call, employ, engage, engross, make use of, use, use up

   Preposition:
   Employ in, on, upon, or about a work, business, etc.; for a purpose; at a stipulated salary.

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1. hire

   Synonyms:
   engage, commission, employ, rent

   Antonyms:
   buy, purchase

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1. hirenoun

   a newly hired employee

   "the new hires need special training"

   Antonyms:
   send away, force out, fire, sack, give the sack, dismiss, give notice, displace, give the axe, can, terminate

2. hireverb

   the act of hiring something or someone

   "he signed up for a week's car hire"

   Antonyms:
   send away, terminate, force out, displace, can, give the sack, sack, give notice, dismiss, give the axe, fire

3. hire, engage, employverb

   engage or hire for work

   "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

   Synonyms:
   rent, prosecute, occupy, use, engross, charter, mesh, utilise, operate, employ, absorb, engage, affiance, betroth, lock, take, wage, pursue, lease, utilize, apply, plight, enlist

   Antonyms:
   dismiss, terminate, send away, force out, fire, give the axe, give notice, can, sack, displace, give the sack

4. rent, hire, charter, leaseverb

   hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

   Synonyms:
   employ, take, rent, engage, charter, let, lease

   Antonyms:
   sack, can, terminate, give notice, force out, give the axe, send away, fire, displace, dismiss, give the sack

5. lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, takeverb

   engage for service under a term of contract

   "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

   Synonyms:
   require, read, occupy, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, hold, choose, study, learn, wage, absorb, necessitate, consume, affiance, operate, demand, employ, lock, consider, need, rent, enlist, pick out, remove, aim, plight, contract, adopt, film, fill, pursue, lease, take aim, prosecute, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, drive, let, make, claim, get, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, engross, call for, take in, bring, submit, convey, shoot, engage, direct, charter, contain, subscribe, betroth, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, accept, guide, admit, mesh, ask, conduct

   Antonyms:
   give the sack, can, dismiss, force out, sack, give the axe, terminate, displace, give notice, send away, fire

Matched Categories

1. • Contract
   • Employee
   • Get

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1. hirenoun

   Synonyms:
   wages, stipend, allowance, salary, pay, remuneration

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1. hirenoun

   Synonyms:
   salary, wages, pay, stipend, remuneration, compensation

2. hireverb

   Synonyms:
   engage, let, lease

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1. List of paraphrases for "hire":

   hiring, recruit, rental, employ, rent, engage, lease, leasing, recruiting, recruitment, renting, hires, initiate, incur, location, commit, rented

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1. Bruce Morrow:

   We had to have a hearing, he had to hire a lawyer, I testified to his character and fitness, that was the big deal, these people looking at him and making a decision on whether or not he was fit when they didn't walk one day in his shoes.

2. Parker Conrad:

   When people ask me what I learned from my experience at SigFig, I always tell them that I didn’t really learn anything at all, except that failure sucks, and you never, ever want it to happen again, but also, it’s the kind of thing that gets you up in the morning. One of the things we talk about at Zenefits is that we want to hire people who have a chip on their shoulder—an intensity to prove they can accomplish something, or prove people who have doubted them wrong. I felt a lot like that myself when I started Zenefits. I needed to prove I could accomplish something—that I wasn’t a failure, even though it felt to me like I was. That’s how a lot of this stuff got started.

3. Mauro Repacci:

   If you’re a Boston startup, investors know what you’re doing -- you may have graduated from the same school, or have other personal connections, also, everyone is trying to hire here, and if you don’t have a network here or university contacts, recruiting be hard.

4. Andre Johnson:

   So, it’s very big just to get everybody on board, i think having coach Lovie Smith here is the right way to get started, and I think with that hire you’ll get some of the fans back. And now it’s just getting the right players in the building and putting a good product out on the field and just going out and performing.

5. Asadullah Jamali:

   Everyone in those areas bows to Dostum and he is the one to hire and fire government employees.