Engaged or employed for payment; let out on hire: mercenary. Also with adverbs, as hired out.

Hired: see conduct, v. 10, conduce, v. 2. as past participle.

Of a horse or carriage: hired for a particular job or for a limited time. Cf. job, n.2 compounds 1.

attributive. Engaged on contract, hired; esp. in ticca gharry, hired carriage.