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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#m1)

2) To hire someone is to give them a job and pay them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#m2)

3) Hire is paying to use something: «bike hire», «for hire». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x1)
- The shop hires 3 new workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x2)
- How much to hire bikes for 4 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x3)
- A bus is hired for the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x4)
- We hired a canoe on the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x5)
- The taxi light shows it is for hire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x6)
- The school hired a new music teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x7)
- They hire out their hall for parties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/8/)
- ["Private military contractor" is the official name for a hired soldier, a mercenary.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/23/)
- [La location means rental or hire: location de vélos means bike hire; a place is un endroit or un lieu.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/15/)
- [In the workers in the vineyard, workers hired late in the day were paid the same as those hired early.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/16/)
- [And Leah said: 'God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.905/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hire» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.