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How to pronounce “hire”
Hear “hire” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for hire
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hire with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Henry Kissinger: Former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Prize Winner
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- Definition summary
- (countable) A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce hire
Henry Kissinger: Former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Prize Winner

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Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “hire”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
- (uncountable) The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
- (uncountable) Payment for the temporary use of something.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Reward.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, chiefly UK) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- (transitive, chiefly UK) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- (transitive, chiefly UK) To accomplish by paying for services.
- (intransitive) To accept employment.
- (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
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