| 单词 | hire |
| 释义 | hire (once / 150 pages) vn When you hire someone, you invite them to work for you or the company you represent. If you manage your local ice cream shop, it might be part of your job to hire extra ice cream scoopers for the busy summer season. Your boss at the animal shelter might hire you immediately if she's desperate for help — or if you impress her as a true animal lover. Once she does, she can call you "a new hire," or a recently hired employee. It's less common in the U.S. than in Britain, but you can also say you hire a car when you rent or lease one. Hire comes from the Old English hyr, which means both "wages" and "interest." WORD FAMILYhire: hired, hirer, hires, hiring+/hirer: hirers USAGE EXAMPLES“Everlasting,” the fictional reality show at the center of “UnREAL,” hired its first black bachelor, Darius. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) I understand that the Washington Post is actually hiring news reporters. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Principals would be allowed to hire the teachers they wanted. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v engage or hire for work They hired two new secretaries in the department Syn|Ant|Hypo employ, engage can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position featherbed hire more workers than are necessary fillappoint someone to (a position or a job) engageask to represent; of legal counsel shiphire for work on a ship contract, sign, sign on, sign upengage by written agreement ratemploy scabs or strike breakers in farm out, job, subcontractarranged for contracted work to be done by others contract outassign a job to someone outside one's own business 2v engage for service under a term of contract Syn|Hyper charter, engage, lease, rent, take acquire, get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 3v hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services Syn|Hyper charter, lease, rent contract, undertake enter into a contractual arrangement 4n the act of hiring something or someone he signed up for a week's car hire Hyper act, deed, human action, human activity something that people do or cause to happen 5n a newly hired employee the new hires need special training Hyper employee a worker who is hired to perform a job |
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