hire

«hire» in Mova's school dictionary: to pay to use something for a time (UK), like hiring a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (hire, hires, hired, hiring); noun (hire)

meaning for a pupil

1) To hire is to pay to use something for a time (UK), like hiring a boat or bikes; in the USA people usually say «rent». tree →

2) To hire someone is to give them a job and pay them. tree →

3) Hire is paying to use something: «bike hire», «for hire». tree →

sense in the lessons

paying for time: cost per hour × hours; workers hired; in everyday life: hiring bikes at the park, a car hire for a holiday, «for hire» on a taxi; in jobs: a company hires new workers; phrases: «for hire», «hire out», «car hire»

examples

• They hire a boat for $15 an hour. tree →
• The shop hires 3 new workers. tree →
• How much to hire bikes for 4 hours? tree →
• A bus is hired for the trip. tree →
• We hired a canoe on the lake. tree →
• The taxi light shows it is for hire. tree →
• The school hired a new music teacher. tree →
• They hire out their hall for parties. tree →

note

Cost = rate × time; often plus a fixed fee. Workers hired add to the staff. Homophone: «higher» sounds the same. UK «hire a car» = US «rent a car».

In the corpora

• A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.
• "Private military contractor" is the official name for a hired soldier, a mercenary.
• La location means rental or hire: location de vélos means bike hire; a place is un endroit or un lieu.
• In the workers in the vineyard, workers hired late in the day were paid the same as those hired early.
• And Leah said: 'God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hire» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.