hire

To hire someone is to give a job to a person. An owner of a business, a manager, a human resources director, or a homeowner decides that a man or a woman has good qualifications for a job and wants to make that person part of a company or provide that person a form of employment.

• They’re hiring new workers.
• That new hotel is currently hiring.
• A lot of retailers will be hiring in the summer.
• My neighbor says he needs to hire someone to do some electrical work.
• Who did they decide to hire?

The verb "hire" is often used in the passive voice:

• Who was hired to do the job?
• Twenty new people were hired last week as the company continues to expand.
• Kevin was finally hired for a job after being unemployed for two years.
• It’s difficult to get hired without certain computer skills.

He just got hired!

The word "hiring" is frequently used as a gerund:

• Hiring new workers at that company came to a sudden stop when the recession began.
• They’re doing a lot of hiring.
• Who does the hiring for your company?
• Do you know anyone hiring right now?

The word "hire" is sometimes used as a noun:

• A new hire will start work next week. (a new hire = a new employee.)
• They added ten new hires in the last year.

You can also use "hire" as an adjective by adding a "d" to the end of the word:

• A newly hired worker has a lot to learn.
• The farm found enough hired hands to complete the harvest. (hired hand = worker; a temporary laborer)

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April 9, 2013