| 单词 | to be or have on hire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be or have on hire 1. Payment contracted to be made for the temporary use of anything. (In Old English, esp. for money lent; usury, interest.) to be or have on hire, to let (†put, set) to hire, i.e. at the service of another in consideration of payment made by him. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > [noun] hirec1000 layc1175 wage1447 rent1891 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] hirec1000 shipec1000 shipingc1275 servicec1300 soldc1330 wage1338 payment1370 reward1371 pay?a1400 mercedec1400 remunerationc1400 souldie1474 emolument1480 soldery1502 stipend?1518 entertainment1535 task-money1593 consideration1607 gratuitya1637 wadage1679 addling1757 solde1852 treatment1852 screw1853 time1877 money1887 wage payment1923 c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxiii. 19 Ne læne þine breþer nan þing to hire. c1000 Ælfric Lev. xxv. 37 Ne syle þu þin feoh to hyre. c1000 Ecgberht's Penit. iii. Proem. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6778 Elles noght..I lete to hire for ani mede. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 509 He sette nought. his benefice to hyre [v.rr. hire, huyre]. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. v. 53 Longe tyme haue ye putte youre tonges to hyre, ye witnessers of falshede. 1483 Cath. Angl. 186/2 To let to Hire, locare. 1495–7 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 186 Payed to Richard Yoksale of Portesmouth ffor the hyre of hys bote. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 250 Ffreight & hyre of a crayer. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark xii. f. lxij A certayne man planted a vine yarde..and lett it out to hyre vnto husbandemen. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 93 Of him that in..streate keepeth horses to hier. 1587 F. James in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 199 Bote hyre from Lambeth. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. i. 13 The hire is pretty reasonable both for the Vessels, and the Men. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 109 Paying him the King's Duty, and the Hire of the Mill. 1870 W. M. Baker New Timothy 161 To keep one's conscience, too, on hire, as that drunken Isham..at the livery-stable does a horse. 1898 N.E.D. at Hire Mod. Bicycles on hire. < as lemmas |
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