Collocations for "hire"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hire" in context.
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hire
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- hire [a worker, an intern, a contractor]
- hired a [lawyer, programmer]
- hire [cheap, additional, inexpensive] labor
- hire a [singer, decorator, planner] for
- hire a [limo, taxi, car]
- hiring for [summer, the event]
- hire out [experienced, skilled, the best] workers
- hired her to [do, design, be]
- hires and fires [employees, people, staff]
- hired herself out as
- was hired in [the United States, London]
- hired by the [company, school, government]
- hired to [improve, fix, redo] the
- hired [temporarily, permanently]
- hired to [help, replace, provide]
- hired in [August, 2004]
- hired from [within, outside]
- hired [externally, internally]
- have you met the new hire?
- a new hire in the office
- new hires [start at the bottom, have to attend orientation]
- the company is [recruiting, taking on, looking for] new hires
- new hires for the [job, project, season]
- a hire car
'hire' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
ambitious
- architect
- athletic
- barrister
- builder
- cab
- caretaker
- cleaning
- consultant
- designer
- dropout
- endorsement
- engineer
- escort
- fact
- freelance
- gun
- immigrant
- independent
- intend
- labor
- midwife
- moving
- nanny
- orderly
- personnel
- professional
- prostitute
- qualified
- realtor
- recommendation
- replace
- researcher
- security
- ski
- skip
- solicitor
- spy
- staff
- stripper
- teenager
- temp
- typically