Collocations for "hired"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hired" 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
'hired' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
CEO
- accountant
- acumen
- ancillary
- annual
- apprentice
- board
- clerk
- clown
- consulation
- consult
- consultant
- contract
- contractor
- cowboy
- daily
- duration
- editor
- electronic
- escort
- eye
- fitness
- fleet
- gun
- harvest
- help
- hire
- interview
- janitor
- lawyer
- leader
- leaflet
- manager
- nanny
- network
- newly
- outside
- oversee
- photographer
- porter
- private
- producer
- resident
- tame
- temp
- typing
- yacht