Word Meanings - HIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIRE)

• Engage
• Promise
• undertake
• vouch
• employ
• occupy
• hire
• gain
• attract
• enlist
• stipulate
• pledge
• agree
• buy
• adopt
• involve
• Wages
• Remuneration
• compensation
• stipend
• salary
• allowance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HIRE)

• Redeem

Related words: (words related to HIRE)

• STIPEND
  Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
• STIPENDIARIAN
  Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.
• WAGES
  A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund , the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• VOUCHMENT
  A solemn assertion.
• ADOPT
  1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve;
• ATTRACTIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
• VOUCHSAFEMENT
  The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.
• ATTRACTOR
  One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• STIPENDIATE
  To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.
• STIPENDIARY
  Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• AGREER
  One who agrees.
• UNDERTAKE
  1. To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton. 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• FOREVOUCHED
  Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. Shak.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• AVOUCHABLE
  Capable of being avouched.
• INSTIPULATE
  See EXSTIPULATE