Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hire
Participle: hired
Gerund: hiring
Indicative
Present
| I | hire |
| you | hire |
| he;she;it | hires |
| we | hire |
| you | hire |
| they | hire |
Perfect
| I | have hired |
| you | have hired |
| he;she;it | has hired |
| we | have hired |
| you | have hired |
| they | have hired |
Past
| I | hired |
| you | hired |
| he;she;it | hired |
| we | hired |
| you | hired |
| they | hired |
Pluperfect
| I | had hired |
| you | had hired |
| he;she;it | had hired |
| we | had hired |
| you | had hired |
| they | had hired |
Future
| I | will hire |
| you | will hire |
| he;she;it | will hire |
| we | will hire |
| you | will hire |
| they | will hire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hired |
| you | will have hired |
| he;she;it | will have hired |
| we | will have hired |
| you | will have hired |
| they | will have hired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hire |
| you | hire |
| he;she;it | hire |
| we | hire |
| you | hire |
| they | hire |
Perfect
| I | have hired |
| you | have hired |
| he;she;it | have hired |
| we | have hired |
| you | have hired |
| they | have hired |
Imperfect
| I | hired |
| you | hired |
| he;she;it | hired |
| we | hired |
| you | hired |
| they | hired |
Pluperfect
| I | had hired |
| you | had hired |
| he;she;it | had hired |
| we | had hired |
| you | had hired |
| they | had hired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hire |
| you | would hire |
| he;she;it | would hire |
| we | would hire |
| you | would hire |
| they | would hire |
Perfect
| I | would have hired |
| you | would have hired |
| he;she;it | would have hired |
| we | would have hired |
| you | would have hired |
| they | would have hired |
Imperative
| you | hire |
| we | Let's hire |
| you | hire |
Verbs conjugated like 'hire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hire'
fire,
hare,
hide,
hie,
hike,
hile,
hipe,
hive,
ire,
mire,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E.
hyrian "pay for service, employ for wages, engage," from P.Gmc.
*khurja (cf. Dan.
hyre, O.Fris.
hera, Du.
huren, Ger.
heuern "to hire, rent").
2. From Middle English hiren, hyren, from Old English hȳrian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”), Swedish hyra (“to hire”).
3. Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”). See: Middle English '
hiren', Dutch '
huren', Low Saxon 'hüren', Danish '
hyre', Swedish '
hyra'.
Sample Sentences
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This young man had been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place. He had invented a machine for the cleaning of the hemp, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ No object at all, sir. I don't need to hire any of my hands out, unless I 've a mind to. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] that the worst tools ever wrought. Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful trucklings to mercenary knaves, whose claim to be considered, is, that every day and week they sow new crops of ruin with their venal types, which are the dragon 's teeth [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ He told me that I was going down to Louisville, to hire out as cook to the same tavern where my husband works,—that's what Mas’r told me, his own self; and I can't believe he'd lie to me, ” said the woman.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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There being no stage-coach next day, upon the road we wished to take, I hired ‘an extra, ’ at a reasonable charge to carry us to Tiffin; a small town from whence there is a railroad to Sandusky. This extra was an ordinary four-horse stage-coach, such as I have described, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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To this end, we went up the North River again, as far as the town of Hudson, and there hired an extra to carry us to Lebanon, thirty miles distant: and of course another and a different Lebanon from that village where I slept on the night of the Prairie trip.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Well, Chloe, who do you propose that we should hire out ? ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] hand, that Tom said might be read “ most acrost the room. ” It contained various refreshing items of home intelligence, with which our reader is fully acquainted: stated how Aunt Chloe had been hired out to a confectioner in Louisville, where her skill in the pastry line was gaining wonderful sums of money, all of which, Tom was informed, was to be laid up to go to make up the sum of his [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ What would you do with them ? ” “ I'd sell them, and buy a place in the free states, and take all our people there, and hire teachers, to teach them to read and write. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Had you any friends ? ” said Emmeline. “ Yes, my husband,—he's a blacksmith. Mas’r gen’ly hired him out. They took me off so quick, I didn't even have time to see him; and I's got four children. O, dear me ! ” said the woman, covering her face with her hands.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)