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Definition of Hired
1. Adjective. Having services engaged for a fee. "A hired gun"
2. Adjective. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers. "The chartered buses arrived on time"
Definition of Hired
1. Verb. (past of hire) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hired
1. hire [v] - See also: hire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hired
Literary usage of Hired
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Canada Year Book by Statistics Canada (1908)
"Rent and hired labour, 1001. Farmland leased acres. ... 106342 Weeks of hired
labour in year.NO. 79539 Cosi, of labour with board $ • 73 Cost per week ..."
2. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"The remaining 2,6oo,ooo are hired laborers, and to them would be ... hired laborers
are of two classes, considerably different in their condition. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"When U4=d without qualification to-day, the word labour, commonly designates
hired labour, and frequently hired manual labour. This is particularly true ..."
4. Archæology and the Bible by George Aaron Barton (1916)
"CHAPTER IX ABRAHAM AND ARCHEOLOGY ABRAHAM hired AN Ox. ABRAHAM LEASED A FARM.
ABRAHAM PAID His RENT. WHO WAS THIS ABRAHAM? TRAVEL BETWEEN BABYLONIA AND ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"That the pauper's husband Charles Isaac was born at Box in the county of Wilts,
and about 14 years since WHS hired for a year, and served the same in the ..."