HIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hired mean? 

• HIRED (adjective)
  The adjective HIRED has 2 senses:

1. having services engaged for a fee

2. hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers

  Familiarity information: HIRED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having services engaged for a fee

Context example:

a hired gun

Similar:

employed (having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers

Synonyms:

chartered; hired; leased

Context example:

the chartered buses arrived on time

 Context examples 

A company hired by another company or research center to take over certain parts of running a clinical trial.

(Contract Research Organization, NCI Dictionary)

I hired a horse and guide for five shillings, which I borrowed of the captain.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Who, then, could have hired them?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

These are not hired slaves, but free companions, who will do nothing save by their own good wills.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Yet it is hard,” she sometimes thought, “that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Poor as he was, and determined to rise as he was, he nevertheless hired one servant to take the heavy work off of Marian's hands.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Not by a wagon or cart: oh no! nothing of that kind could be hired in the village.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They may be delighted by a romantic alliance or grateful for the collaborators they have hired (an agent, manager, publicist, accountant, lawyer, etc.).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)