Definition of Hirings

1. Noun. (plural of hiring), present participle of (term hire). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hirings

1. hiring [n] - See also: hiring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirings

hired gun
hired hand
hired help
hired man
hiree
hirees
hireless
hireling
hirelings
hirer
hirers
hires
hiring
hiring freeze
hiring hall
hirings (current term)
hirling
hirlings
hirn
hirola
hirple
hirpled
hirples
hirpling
hirquine
hirrawem
hirrawems
hirrient
hirrients
hirs

Literary usage of Hirings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Laws Relating to the Poor by Edmund Bott, John Tidd Pratt, Francis Const, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Barbados (1827)
"A service for a year, though under diti'urent hirings, is good, if one of die hirings be for ... Of several hirings. 363. Rex v. Overton, HT 10 W. 3. Burr. ..."

2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"... in the border slave States the columns of the newspapers were crowded with advertisements of " Negroes for Hire," " Negroes wanted," or " Negro hirings. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Contracts and Rights and Liabilities Ex Contractu by Charles Greenstreet Addison (1849)
"... for dismissal without notice in the case of defeasible yearly hirings.—When a defeasible yearly ..."

4. A treatise on parochial settlements: In Two Parts. 1. On the Law of by Edward John Gambier (1828)
"And, First, of express hirings ; which may further be divided into general ... General hirings are, where no term of service is agreed upon at the time of ..."

5. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1865)
"CANON RANDOLPH read a paper " On Statute hirings." He observed that the demoralising tendencies of the system had been clearly and forcibly depicted at ..."

6. Sessions Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, Chiefly Touching by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Court of King's Bench, Great Britain (1873)
"2, 16, 40 Two several hirings for Half a Year, and Service for a Year, not sufficient to gain a Settlement, because no Hiring for a Year. ..."

7. The Turnover of Factory Labor by Sumner Huber Slichter (1919)
"The following is a classification of the 78 establishments according to the ratio of discharges to hirings. Percentage of discharges Number of ..."

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