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单词 hire and fire
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hire and fire
a. transitive. To engage the service of (a person) for a stipulated reward; to employ for wages. Phrase hire and fire [fire v.1 22] ; also as n. attributive.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > hire or employ
hirec1000
i-bye10..
i-hirec1000
soldc1386
takea1400
retain1437
wage1465
conduct1476
fee1488
conduce1502
implya1533
entertain1572
enter1585
wager1592
to fill up1598
to take on1611
improve1640
to speak for ——a1688
employa1727
engage1753
ploy1871
to turn on1893
to book up1915
society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > hire or employ > employ or dismiss to fit work available
hire and fire1958
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 72 Seðe..wolde hyrian wyrhtan into his wingearde.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 7 Us nan mann ne hyrode [c1160 Hatton G. herde].
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 102 Forto hure wið ham as me deð mid gersume þeo þet wel fechteð.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 80 Þe bisshop..Hired ilk a man.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 51 An oost þat was i-hered [MS. γ yhuyred] out of Grecia.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ix. 336 Bote he be heyliche yhyred elles wol he chide.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 241/2 Hyryn, conduco.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxvi. B Whoso hyreth a foole, hyreth soch one as wyl take no hede.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 43v They also hier folkes to say the Psalter speedily.
1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) iii As if he hir'd the workers by the day.
1744 Hist. & Proc. House of Commons 14 154 They have already been informed there was no necessity of hiring Auxiliary Troops.
1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 182 Chinamen are in the country and can be hired cheaply.
1958 Listener 23 Oct. 632/2 Men who can be hired and fired according to the current level of business.
1963 Times 6 Feb. 6/3Hire and fire’ is no longer associated with the construction industries.
1963 Times 24 Apr. 7/4 Sir Donald said a five-year building programme should be planned in the public sector to ensure continuity of work and stop the ‘hire and fire’ attitude.
1970 Sci. Amer. Mar. 35/3 The inability to hire and fire in order to vary the work force with fluctuations in the business cycle.
1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 20 Feb. 4/2 The locals are in the ‘hire and fire’ positions.
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