hired

Speech parts

1. hired - Adjective

3. hired - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Hire

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

leased chartered take working accepted postpaid sublet paid contract employed selected assumed let engaged occupied

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Antonyms

removed stopped cancelled unemployed unconstitutional canned

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Phrases with the word

hired killer hired assassin hired out hired soldier be hired last hired, first fired

Anagrams

hider rheid

Examples

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. Percy Bysshe Shelley

EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. Samuel Johnson

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise. Claud Cockburn

Hired horses make short miles. Dutch Proverb

The wolf can always be hired very cheap as a shepherd. Russian Proverb

A hired horse tired never. Romanian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hire-purchase hireable hireage hired applauder hired assassin hired fighter