| 单词 | hire |
| 释义 | hire I. 1. a. < the heaviest single item of government expenditure is … the hire of the money we borrowed for the war — G.B.Shaw > b. < the laborer is worthy of his hire — Lk 10:7 (Authorized Version) > 2. a. (1) < the government office which controlled the hire of coolies — Dillon Ripley > (2) < the monthly base compensation payroll … is $70,000 as the result of new hires and merit and length-of-service increases — U.S. Code > b. < men of every political leaning are in the hire of big corporations — Robert Shaplen > Synonyms: see wage • - for hire II. transitive verb 1. a. < many clergy fought in person, and others hired substitutes — G.G.Coulton > < the leader … hires staff people to think up the ideas — W.H.Whyte > — sometimes used with away or on < can hire them away from any company … if you offer them a few more dollars — W.J.Reilly > < the crew was fully hired on — John Hersey > b. < came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the … hotel — Scott Fitzgerald > < hired a car for the afternoon — Elizabeth Bowen > c. archaic < she can hire the money, and I know she will pay you — A.D.McFaul > 2. a. < have been hiring themselves out as practical consultants — Vance Packard > < the colonel had hired out most of his slaves — Winston Churchill > b. < bored-looking camels which they hire to visitors as props for exotic snapshots — Mollie Panter-Downes > — often used with out < the town council hired out chairs for visitors — B.L.K.Henderson > 3. < my father … had to hire all his share of the farm work done — W.A.White > intransitive verb < asked me if I would hire with him to tend shop and keep books — John Woolman > • - hire one's time III. < met the new hires > |
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