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hire noun.
[Old English hr = Old Frisian here, Old Saxon huria, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch hure (Dutch huur), from West Germanic.]
Payment under contract for the use of something. OE.
D. Wigoder Regent's Park..with its rowing boats for hire. attrib.: Sunday Express Avis..has hire prices from about 15 per day.
Payment under contract for personal service; wages. ME.
Bible (AV): Luke 10:7 The labourer is worthy of his hire.
fig. Reward, recompense, payment, (for work, service, etc.). ME.
The action of hiring or fact of being hired; engagement on agreed terms of payment for use, service, etc. E17.
Oxford English Dictionary To arrange for the hire of a horse.
One who is hired; an employee. US. L20.
Phrases: for hire available to be hired. on hire available to be hired, that has been hired.
Comb.: hire-car: available for hire; hireman (now only Scot.) a hired servant; hire purchase, hire-purchase system: by which something hired becomes the hirer's after a certain number of payments.
hireless adjective (now rare) without hire; unhired: M17.