单词 | hire and fire |
释义 | > as lemmashire 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 6/3 ‘Hire 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. < as lemmas |
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