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ˈhiring, vbl. n.
[f. hire v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. hire; engaging a person or thing for hire; letting out on hire.
c1400Three Kinges Cologne 24 Þe lordys of þe grounde haue..grete toll of hyryng of þes beestes. 1675in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 42 The hireing of workmen..may be intrusted..to the Vicechancellour. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xxx. 453 Hiring is always for a price, or stipend, or additional recompence; borrowing is merely gratuitous. 1868Pall Mall G. 12 Dec. 3 Hiring is an agreement for the continuous performance of certain tasks for current wages.
2. local. (See quot. 1825.) (Also statute hiring.)
1825Brockett, Hiring, a fair or market at which country servants are hired. 1826in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 668 The ‘hirings’ for farmers' servants half yearly at Whitsuntide and Martinmas. 1885R. Buchanan Annan Water v, A couple of female farm servants had come in to the spring ‘hiring’.
3. attrib., as hiring-agreement, hiring-time, etc.; hiring-fair = 2; † hiring man, a man to be hired.
c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 22 We come nat yn-to thys land as hyryng men. 1883T. Hardy in Longm. Mag. July 257 Attending a wet hiring-fair at Candlemas, in search of a new master. 1892Antiquary Jan. 14 The annual agricultural hiring-time in any district. 1897Daily News 15 Oct. 8/7 The largest hiring fair in Berkshire was held at Newbury yesterday. |