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HIRE OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hire out mean?
• HIRE OUT (verb)
The verb HIRE OUT has 1 sense:
1. grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee
Familiarity information: HIRE OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Context example:
He hired himself out as a cook
Hypernyms (to "hire out" is one way to...):
lend; loan (give temporarily; let have for a limited time)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Context examples
There is likewise a kind of beggarly princes in Europe, not able to make war by themselves, who hire out their troops to richer nations, for so much a day to each man; of which they keep three-fourths to themselves, and it is the best part of their maintenance: such are those in many northern parts of Europe.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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