<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object), hired, hir·ing.<ul><li>to engage the services of (someone) for wages or other payment: The company hired three new engineers in the last quarter.</li><li>Synonyms: employ.</li><li>to engage the temporary use of at a set price; rent: We hired a limousine to get us to the wedding in style.</li><li>Synonyms: lease.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of hiring.</li><li>the state or condition of being hired.</li><li>the price or compensation paid or contracted to be paid for the temporary use of something or for personal services or labor; pay: The laborer is worthy of his hire.</li><li>Synonyms: remuneration, salary, wages, stipend, rental.</li><li>Informal: a person hired or to be hired: Most of our new hires are college-educated.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>British: available for hire; rental: a hire car.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to offer or exchange one's services for payment: He hired himself out as a handyman.</li><li>to obtain employment; take a job: They hired on as wranglers with the rodeo.</li></ul>