hired

/'haiəd/

Thân thiện

The company hired a new accountant for the tax season.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Employed for wages or a fee: Describes a person or service that is paid to work or perform a specific task, rather than being a permanent employee or volunteer.
   • Rented or leased for temporary use: Describes an object, vehicle, or property that is obtained for temporary use in exchange for payment.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The company uses hired security guards for the event.
  • We traveled in a hired car from the airport to the hotel.
  • He worked as a hired hand on the farm during the summer.

Advanced Usage

• "hired gun": A person, often with specialized skills, who is paid to perform a specific, often difficult or controversial, task.
  • The corporation brought in a hired gun from a top law firm to handle the merger.
• "hired help": Refers collectively to people who are paid to do domestic or manual work.
  • The hired help will take care of the cleaning and gardening.

Variants and Related Words

• Hire (verb): To engage the services of (a person) for a fee or to pay for the temporary use of (something).
  • We need to hire a consultant.
• Hirer (noun): A person or organization that hires someone or something.
  • The hirer is responsible for providing the necessary equipment.

Synonyms

• Employed: Engaged in a job for pay.
• Paid: Receiving money for work done.
• Retained: Engaged, especially the services of a professional, by payment of a fee.
• Leased: Granted use of property under a contract for a specified period in return for payment.
• Chartered: Hired for exclusive use (typically for vehicles like buses, boats, or planes).

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Hire out: To make oneself or something available for hire.
  • He hires out his services as a photographer.
• Hire on: To accept a job; to be employed.
  • She hired on with the new tech startup.

Related Idioms

• A hired hand: A person employed to do manual labor, often on a temporary basis.
  • The ranch depends on hired hands during the harvest season.
• Like hiring an orchestra to play a solo: An expression meaning using excessive or overly complex resources for a simple task.
  • Using the supercomputer for that basic calculation is like hiring an orchestra to play a solo.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers
   • a chartered plane
   • the chartered buses arrived on time
2. having services engaged for a fee
   • hired hands
   • a hired gun

Từ đồng nghĩa

• chartered
• leased