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hirer|ˈhaɪərə(r)|
[f. hire v. + -er1.]
1. One who engages the services of a person or obtains the use of a thing for payment.
a1500in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 72 If the said hirer in gret duelle not in any parte therof but lete it out ageyn. 1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. i. §25 B, The lessee or hierer. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xxx. 453 By this mutual contract the hirer, or borrower, gains a temporary property in the thing hired. 1885Law Rep. 14 Q. Bench Div. 892 The relation..between hirers and letters of private carriages.
2. One who lets out something on hire. Obs. or Sc. (esp. in coach-hirer, carriage-hirer).
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Arrendador, a lettor, a hirer. 1598Florio, Nolatore, a hyrer, a hackney man. 1755Johnson, Hirer 2. In Scotland it denotes one who keeps small horses to let. 1766Beattie Ep. to Hon. C.B. 27 'Tis wondrous hard, To act the Hirer, yet preserve the Bard. |