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Hire can be a noun or a verb.

hire used as a noun:

  1. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
    "When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire."
  2. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
    "We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

hire used as a verb:

  1. To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
    "We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down."
  2. To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
    "The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers."
  3. To exchange the services of for remuneration.
    "They hired themselves out as day laborers."
  4. To accomplish by paying for services.
    "After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done."
  5. To accept employment
    "They hired out as day laborers."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'hire' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
  2. Noun usage: We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
  3. Verb usage: We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
  4. Verb usage: The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
  5. Verb usage: They hired themselves out as day laborers.
  6. Verb usage: They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
  7. Verb usage: After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
  8. Verb usage: They hired out as day laborers.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of hire are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of hire, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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