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hire
Overview of noun hire
The noun hire has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. hire -- (a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training")
2. hire -- (the act of hiring something or someone; "he signed up for a week's car hire")
Overview of verb hire
The verb hire has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (33) hire, engage, employ -- (engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?")
2. (1) rent, hire, charter, lease -- (hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services)
3. lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take -- (engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hire
2 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire
=> employee
=> worker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
hire
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun hire
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hire
2 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire
=> employee
Sense 2
hire
=> act, human action, human activity
Antonyms of noun hire
Member Holonyms of noun hire
Substance Holonyms of noun hire
Part Holonyms of noun hire
Member Meronyms of noun hire
Substance Meronyms of noun hire
Part Meronyms of noun hire
Meronyms of noun hire
Holonyms of noun hire
Attributes of noun hire
Derived Forms of noun hire
Domain of noun hire
Domain Terms of noun hire
Familiarity of noun hire
hire used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun hire
2 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire
> employee
=> bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist
=> clerk
=> company man
=> copyist, scribe, scrivener
=> copywriter
=> crewman
=> deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer
=> dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant
=> dispatcher
=> dog catcher
=> floater
=> floorwalker, shopwalker
=> gardener
=> gasman
=> gofer
=> hire
=> hired help
=> hireling, pensionary
=> jobholder
=> line worker
=> liveryman
=> office boy
=> organization man
=> porter, Pullman porter
=> potboy, potman
=> public servant
=> registrar
=> salesperson, sales representative, sales rep
=> sandwichman
=> shop assistant
=> spotter
=> spotter
=> staff member, staffer
=> stagehand, stage technician
=> stocktaker, stock-taker
=> sweeper
=> tollkeeper, tollman, tollgatherer, toll collector, toll taker, toll agent, toller
=> trainman, railroader, railroad man, railwayman, railway man
=> turncock
=> typist
=> workman, workingman, working man, working person
Sense 2
hire
> act, human action, human activity
=> action
=> nonaccomplishment, nonachievement
=> leaning
=> motivation, motivating
=> assumption
=> rejection
=> forfeit, forfeiture, sacrifice
=> derivation
=> activity
=> hire
=> wear, wearing
=> judgment, judgement, assessment
=> production
=> stay
=> residency, residence, abidance
=> inactivity
=> hindrance, hinderance, interference
=> stop, stoppage
=> group action
=> distribution
=> legitimation
=> waste, permissive waste
=> proclamation, promulgation
=> communication, communicating
=> speech act
Meronyms of noun hire
2 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire
=> employee
=> worker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun hire
Grep of noun hire
ayrshire
berkshire
capital of new hampshire
devonshire
gloucestershire
gun for hire
hampshire
hertfordshire
hire
hire-purchase
hire car
hired gun
hired hand
hired help
hired man
hireling
hirer
lancashire
leicestershire
lincolnshire
new hampshire
north yorkshire
northamptonshire
samphire
sapphire
shire
south yorkshire
star sapphire
water sapphire
west yorkshire
worcestershire
yorkshire
Antonyms of verb hire
1 of 3 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire, engage, employ
Antonym of fire (Sense 4)
=>fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb hire
3 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire, engage, employ
Sense 2
rent, hire, charter, lease
=> contract, undertake
=> promise, assure
=> declare
=> state, say, tell
=> express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to
Sense 3
lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> get, acquire
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb hire
1 of 3 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire, engage, employ
=> featherbed
=> fill
=> engage
=> ship
=> sign, contract, sign on, sign up
=> rat
=> subcontract, farm out, job
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb hire
3 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire, engage, employ
Sense 2
rent, hire, charter, lease
=> contract, undertake
Sense 3
lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> get, acquire
'Cause To' of verb hire
Derived Forms of verb hire
1 of 3 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire, engage, employ
RELATED TO>(noun) hirer#1
=> boss, hirer
Domain of verb hire
Domain Terms of verb hire
Familiarity of verb hire
hire used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb hire
3 senses of hire
Sense 1
hire, engage, employ
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
rent, hire, charter, lease
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sense 3
lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Somebody ----s something from somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb hire
2 of 3 senses of hire
Sense 2
rent, hire, charter, lease
> contract, undertake
=> stipulate
=> sign
=> stipulate, qualify, condition, specify
=> rent, lease
=> rent, hire, charter, lease
Sense 3
lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb hire
Sense 1
hire, engage, employ
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Sense 2
rent, hire, charter, lease
=> contract, undertake
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Sense 3
lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> get, acquire
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Grep of verb hire
hire
hire out
Grep of adj hire
hired
sapphire
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