hire

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhaɪ(.)ə/    美 /haɪɹ/|/ˈhaɪ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort. countable
    — We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
  2. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. uncountable
    — When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
  3. Payment for the temporary use of something. uncountable
    — The sign offered pedalos on hire.
  4. Reward. obsolete,uncountable
    — I vvill him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that ſhield, more vvorthy of good knight; / For vvhy ſhould a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
动词 v.
  1. To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. Australia,UK,transitive
    — We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
  2. To occupy premises in exchange for rent. UK,transitive
    — I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage of hiring compared with owning, but it is evident that the savage owns his shelter because it costs so little, while the civilized man hires his commonly because he cannot afford to own it; nor can he, in the long run, any better afford to hire.
  3. To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. transitive
    — The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
  4. To exchange the services of for remuneration. transitive
    — They hired themselves out as day laborers.  They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
  5. To accomplish by paying for services. UK,transitive
    — After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
  6. To accept employment. intransitive
    — They hired out as day laborers.
  7. (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job transitive
    — They hired a milkshake.

词形变化

hires plural hires present,singular,third-person hiring participle,present hired participle,past hired past

词汇关系

反义词
fire
衍生词
car hire DEI hire diversity hire dry hire e-hire hire car hireling hireman hire out hire purchase hire system hireworthy murder-for-hire on hire spot hire the laborer is worthy of his hire the labourer is worthy of his hire acquihire dehire gun-for-hire hirable hired gun hired hand hiree hireless hirer mishire outhire overhire prehire rehire unhire unhired
相关词
rent

词源

词源 1
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”).
Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).
词源 2
From Middle English hiren, hyren, from Old English hȳrian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”), Swedish hyra (“to hire”).
Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”).
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