hiriness.html - {v.}, {informal} 1. To accept a job; take employment. * /Frank hired out as a saxophonist with a dance band./ 2. To rent (as owner). * /John used to hire out his tractor sometimes when he didn't need it himself./

hiriness.html - {n. phr.} A man employed to do jobs every day about a house or farm. * /The hired man was sick, and a lot of the daily chores were not done./

hiriness.html - n.
the cursive form of Japanese syllabic writing or kana (cf. KATAKANA). [Jap., = plain kana]

hiriness.html - adj.
goatlike. [L hircinus f. hircus he-goat]

hiriness.html - v. & n.
--v.

tr.
1 (often foll. by from) procure the temporary use of (a thing) for an agreed payment (hired a van from them).
2 esp. US employ (a person) for wages or a fee.
3 US borrow (money).

--n.

1 hiring or being hired.
2 payment for this.

for (or on) hire ready to be hired. hire-car a car available for hire. hired girl (or man) US a domestic servant, esp. on a farm. hire out grant the temporary use of (a thing) for an agreed payment. hire purchase Brit. a system by which a person may purchase a thing by regular payments while having the use of it.

hireable adj. (US hirable). hirer n. [OE hyrian, hyr f. WG]

hiriness.html - n.
usu. derog. a person who works for hire. [OE hyrling (as HIRE, -LING(1))]