Hire
Hire (hẽr) , pronoun
Hire (hīr) , noun
[Old English hire, hure, Anglo-Saxon hȳr; akin to Dutch huur, German heuer, Danish hyre, Swedish hyra.]
1.
The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
2.
(Law.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. — Story
Hire (hīrd) , transitive verb
[Old English hiren, huren, Anglo-Saxon hȳrian; akin to Dutch huren, German heuern, Danish hyre, Swedish hyra. See Hire, n.]
1.
To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.
2.
To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.
3.
To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.
They... have hired out themselves for bread.