English Dictionary

hire

/haɪə/

verb

(transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. / (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

We are looking to hire a new employee.

意味（1）

(transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.

意味（2）

(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.

意味（3）

(transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.

They hired themselves out as day laborers. They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.

意味（4）

(transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.

After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To accept employment.

They hired out as day laborers.

意味（6）

(transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job

They hired a milkshake.