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== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: hīr, Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) enPR: hīʹər, Homophone: higher (most accents) (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ(.)ə/ (General American) IPA(key): /haɪɹ/, /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/ (South Asia) IPA(key): /həjɜ(r)/ === Etymology 1 === From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“payment”), from the verb *hūʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hūzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs- or *kweHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”). Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”). ==== Noun ==== hire (countable and uncountable, plural hires) (countable) A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort. (uncountable) The state of being hired, or having a job; employment. Synonym: employ (uncountable) Payment for the temporary use of something. (uncountable, obsolete) Reward. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English hiren, hyren, from Old English hȳrian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”), Swedish hyra (“to hire”). Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”). ==== Verb ==== hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired) (transitive, chiefly UK and Australia) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. Synonym: rent (transitive, chiefly UK) To occupy premises in exchange for rent. Synonym: rent (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration. (transitive, chiefly UK) To accomplish by paying for services. (intransitive) To accept employment. (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job ===== Antonyms ===== (antonym(s) of “to employ”): fire ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Hawaiian: hai ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== rent === Anagrams === ReHi, heir, rehi == Akan == === Etymology === Compare, in other varieties of Akan, hyire (“white clay”). === Noun === hire (Abron) white clay === References === Trutenau, Languages of the Akan Area: Papers in Western Kwa Linguistics (1976), page 38: "non-palatalisation of [h] before front vowels [... is a feature shared by] Ivory Coast Abron [...] white clay[:] Abron hire[,] Ghana Brong hire[,] cf. other Akan hyire" == Basque == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hiɾe/ [hi.ɾe] IPA(key): (Southern) /iɾe/ [i.ɾe] Rhymes: -iɾe, -e Hyphenation: hi‧re === Pronoun === hire genitive of hi, your == Japanese == === Romanization === hire Rōmaji transcription of ひれ == Middle Dutch == === Contraction === hire contraction of hi +‎ dāer == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === From Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-West Germanic *heʀā, *hiʀā, from Proto-Germanic *hezōz, genitive feminine singular of *hiz (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here; this”). ==== Alternative forms ==== hir, hyre, hyr, ire, ir, here, her, ere, er, heyre, heore, hare, hure, hur, hurre, huere ==== Determiner ==== hire (nominative pronoun sche) Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner: her, of her. Used in place of the possessive suffix -es to denote possession by an antecedent noun. ===== Synonyms ===== his ===== Descendants ===== English: her Scots: her Yola: her ===== See also ===== ==== Pronoun ==== hire (nominative sche) Third-person singular feminine genitive pronoun: hers. ===== Synonyms ===== hires ===== References ===== “hir, pron.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018. === Etymology 2 === From Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-West Germanic *heʀē, *hiʀē, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi, dative feminine singular of *hiz (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here; this”). ==== Pronoun ==== hire (nominative sche) Third-person singular feminine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: her. (reflexive) herself. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it. ===== Descendants ===== English: her Yola: her ===== See also ===== ===== References ===== “hir(e), pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018. === Etymology 3 === From Old English hȳr, from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique cases. ==== Alternative forms ==== hier, hijre, hir, hyer, hyr, hyre hoyre, huire, hure, huyre, hyure (West Midland) here (East Anglia) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈhiːr(ə)/, (East Anglia, Kent) /ˈheːr(ə)/, (West Midland) /ˈhyːr(ə)/ ==== Noun ==== hire (plural hires) One's salary; wages. Synonyms: mede, wage A reward; recompense. Synonym: mede One's deserts; what one deserves. A payment; a charge. ===== Related terms ===== hiren hire man hirlyng ===== Descendants ===== English: hire Scots: hire ===== References ===== “hīr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 4 === ==== Noun ==== hire alternative form of here (“army”) === Etymology 5 === ==== Noun ==== hire (Somerset) alternative form of iren === Etymology 6 === ==== Verb ==== hire alternative form of hiren (“to hire”) == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Adjective === hire neuter singular of hiren == Old English == === Alternative forms === hyre, hiere, heore, hiore, hure, hir, hiræ, hira, hyræ, hyra, hyr, hieræ, heora === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈxi.re/, [ˈhi.re] Rhymes: -i.re === Pronoun === hire genitive/dative of hēo ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: hire, hir, hyre, hyr, ire, ir, here, her, ere, er, heyre, heore, hare, hure, hur, hurre, huereEnglish: herScots: herYola: her == Old Frisian == === Alternative forms === hiāre === Determiner === hire her === Pronoun === hire genitive/dative of hiū; her ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== North Frisian: hör Saterland Frisian: hier West Frisian: har