hirern.
/ˈhʌɪərə/, U.S. /ˈhaɪ(ə)rər/ 1. One who engages the services of a person or obtains the use of a thing for payment.
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conductor1652
1457 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f. xxv/2 If the said hirer in gret duelle not in any parte therof but lete it out ageyn.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. i. §25 B The lessee or hierer.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxx. 453 By this mutual contract the hirer, or borrower, gains a temporary property in the thing hired.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 892 The relation..between hirers and letters of private carriages.
2. One who lets out something on hire. Obsolete or Scottish (esp. in coach-hirer, carriage-hirer).
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hirer1591
locator1607
letter-out1671
setter1806
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Arrendador A lettor, a hirer.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A hyrer, a hackney man.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Hirer 2. In Scotland it denotes one who keeps small horses to let.
1776 J. Beattie Epist. Honourable C.B. in Poems Several Occasions 67 'Tis wondrous hard To act the Hirer, yet preserve the Bard.
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