From en.wiktionary.org:
[Hire]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [hīr]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [hīʹər]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], from the verb [gmw-pro],
from [en], from [en] or [ine-pro]. Compare [hit].
Cognate with [fy], [nl], [nds-de].
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A person who has been hired , especially in a cohort .
2. * [en]
3. [en] The state of being hired, or having a job ; employment .
4. [en] Payment for the temporary use of something.
5. [en] Reward .
6. * [book=II]
7. * [act=II]
8. * [Luke]
9. * [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |car hire |diversity hire |dry hire |hire car |hireling|hireworthy
|hireman |hire out |hire purchase |hire system |murder-for-hire |on hire|DEI
hire |spot hire |the laborer is worthy of his hire,the labourer is worthy of
his hire }}
***** Translations
[the state of being hired, or having a job; employment]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Malay: [ms]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [goods, services]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[a person who has been hired]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], from [en], from the noun (see above). Compare [fy], [nl],
[nds], [da], [sv].
Eclipsed [enm], borrowed from [fro], [fro], [fro]; see [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To obtain the service s of in return for fix ed payment .
2. * [chapter=16]
3. [en] To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
4. * [chapter=Economy]
5. [en] To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration ; to give someone a job .
6. * [chapter=10]
7. [en] To exchange the services of for remuneration.
8. [en] To accomplish by paying for services.
9. [en] To accept employment.
10. [en] [en] (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
***** Antonyms
- [to employ] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=Terms derived from _hire_ (verb)
|gun-for-hire|acquihire|dehire|hirable|hiree|hireless|hirer|hireworthy|mishire|outhire|overhire|prehire|rehire|unhire
|hired gun |hired hand|unhired }}
***** Descendants
- [haw]
***** Translations
[to obtain the services of in return for fixed payment]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: wynajmować / wynająć , wypożyczać / wypożyczyć
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[to employ]
- Albanian: [sq]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] [naut.]
- Greek: [el]
- Ido: [io]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl] (do pracy), [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[to exchange the services of for remuneration]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] [oneself, dated]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to accomplish by paying for services]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] [coll.]
[trans-bottom]
[to accept employment]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] [naut.] , [de] [dated]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Italian: [it] (1), [it] (2)
- Kurdish:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] (2)
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
- [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Abron
*** Etymology
From [abr].
*** Noun
[abr]
1. white clay
<!--this form is used, per the reference, in both Ghana and the Ivory Coast
varieties of Abron-->
*** References
- Trutenau, _Languages of the Akan Area: Papers in Western Kwa Linguistics_ (1976)
** Basque
*** Pronunciation
[eu-pr]
*** Pronoun
[eu]
1. [eu] , your
** Japanese
*** Romanization
[ja-romaji]
1. [ひれ]
** Middle Dutch
*** Contraction
[dum]
1. [dum]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
From [enm], from [enm], [gmw-pro], from [enm], genitive feminine singular of
[gem-pro], from [enm].
**** Alternative forms
- [enm]
**** Determiner
[enm]
1. [enm] [Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner:] her , of her.
2. [Used in place of the possessive suffix [enm] to denote possession by an antecedent noun.]
3. * {{ quote-book | enm | year=1430 | author=Geoffrey Chaucer | title=Canterbury Tales | chapter=The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
|passage=Here begynnyt the wyf of bathe HIR tale.}}
***** Synonyms
- [enm]
***** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
- [yol]
***** See also
[enm-decl-personal pronouns]
**** Pronoun
[enm]
1. [enm] [Third-person singular feminine genitive pronoun:] hers .
***** Synonyms
- [enm]
***** References
- [entry= hir]
*** Etymology 2
From [enm], from [enm], [gmw-pro], from [enm], dative feminine singular of
[gem-pro], from [enm].
**** Pronoun
[enm]
1. [enm] [Third-person singular feminine pronoun indicating a grammatical object:] [en] .
2. [enm] herself .
3. [Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object:] [en] .
***** Descendants
- [en]
- [yol]
***** See also
[enm-decl-personal pronouns]
***** References
- [entry= hir(e)]
*** Etymology 3
[enm] From [enm], from [enm]. The final vowel is generalised from the Old
English oblique cases.
**** Alternative forms
- [enm]
- [enm]
- [enm]
**** Pronunciation
- [enm]
**** Noun
[enm-noun]
1. One's salary ; wages .
2. A reward ; recompense .
3. One's desert s; what one deserves .
4. * [2 Peter]
5. A payment ; a charge .
***** Related terms
- [enm]
- [enm]
- [enm]
***** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
***** References
- [entry=hīr(e]
*** Etymology 4
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 5
**** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm]
[enm]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Adjective
[nn]
1. [nn]
** Old English
*** Alternative forms
- [ang]
*** Pronunciation
- [hire]
*** Pronoun
[ang]
1. [ang]
**** Descendants
- [enm]
** Old Frisian
*** Alternative forms
- [ofs]
*** Determiner
[ofs]
1. her
*** Pronoun
[ofs]
1. [ofs] ; her
**** Declension
[ofs-decl-ppron]
**** Descendants
- [frr]
- [stq]
- [fy]