单词 | hiring |
释义 | hiringn. 1. The action of hire v.; engaging a person or thing for hire; letting out on hire. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [noun] hiringc1400 conduction1538 renting1552 hire1615 society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun] hiringc1400 letting1425 lettage1530 fee-farming1549 renting1552 location1581 loan1601 rental1800 let1839 letment- society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > recruitment or hiring hiringc1400 retainer1467 retainder1495 recruitment1793 employing1829 feeing1865 rehire1945 c1400 Three Kinges Cologne 24 Þe lordys of þe grounde haue..grete toll of hyryng of þes beestes. 1675 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 42 The hireing of workmen..may be intrusted..to the Vicechancellour. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxx. 453 Hiring is always for a price, or stipend, or additional recompence; borrowing is merely gratuitous. 1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Dec. 3 Hiring is an agreement for the continuous performance of certain tasks for current wages. 2. local. (See quot. 1825.) (Also statute hiring.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Hiring, a fair or market at which country servants are hired. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 668 The ‘hirings’ for farmers' servants half yearly at Whitsuntide and Martinmas. 1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water v A couple of female farm servants had come in to the spring ‘hiring’. Compounds C1. attributive, as hiring-agreement, hiring-time, etc. ΚΠ 1892 Antiquary Jan. 14 The annual agricultural hiring-time in any district. C2. hiring-fair n. = sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1883 T. Hardy in Longman's Mag. July 257 Attending a wet hiring-fair at Candlemas, in search of a new master. 1897 Daily News 15 Oct. 8/7 The largest hiring fair in Berkshire was held at Newbury yesterday. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > hireling hiremanc975 hirelingc1000 leȝhemannc1175 allowes1348 merchantc1384 mercenaryc1387 hiring manc1425 pensioner1472 wageling?1545 pensionary1548 hired woman1639 help1645 engagee1808 c1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. 22 We come nat yn-to thys land as hyryng men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1400 |
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