hired

verb

past tense of hire
1
as in rented
to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum the Youngs hired a limousine for their daughter's wedding

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2
as in employed
to provide with a paying job the farm hires teenagers to pick blueberries in the summer

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Recent Examples of hired Tissot hired a hygienist who confirmed his finding of elevated lead levels in Tissot’s own home. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Cousy sat out the next six seasons before getting hired as head coach of the Cincinnati Royals in 1969. — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026 Dismissing the general manager who hired Espada doesn’t bode well, but Crane made a clear distinction between the two men during the aftermath. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026 Scott hired Luca Khouri, a Jamaican artist, to photograph the campaign at the end of March, which was styled by Marika-Ella Ames. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 31 Aug. 2026 According to court records, Morgan was hired in the fall of 2025 and deployed to the surge in late January. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 In September of that year, the former couple hired a nanny, Elaine Rossi, to care for their kids. — Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026 Newmark Group—the real estate services firm hired by the Pierre’s board and controlled by Cantor Fitzgerald, the brokerage house previously run by Lutnick—could earn tens of millions more in commissions, The New York Times reported. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 Flowers decamped to Nashville, hired producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, whose work excels at mimicking the textures of older records, and recruited a band full of session-pro ringers. — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hired
  1. rented
  2. employed
  3. recruited
  4. engaged
  5. paid
Verb
  • The remaining unoccupied houses fall into other categories, such as properties that have been sold or rented but are not yet occupied, homes that are reserved for workers or units being held off the market.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The pair worked together off-and-on in Chicago and New York, but eventually returned to the city and rented out the old space of a family-favorite diner in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of rented
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  • The Dispatch reported that an EMCC Athletics representative would not confirm whether Stephens remains employed by the school in another capacity.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Chicago police employed 1,102 total detectives as of May 2023, and 1,163 as of last week.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of employed
Verb
  • Summary Canadian universities have successfully recruited 64 international scholars, 48 from top American institutions like Harvard and MIT.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Serving as the territory’s secretary of education between 2013 and 2017, overseeing all of its public schools from kindergarten through high school, he was recruited to Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 as a teacher.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of recruited
Verb
  • Active and engaged With dozens of amenities, clubs, and activities, Windsor Run offers a multitude of ways to get involved.
    — Erickson Senior Living, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2026
  • None of the contemporaneous reports made note of whether the Tesla had one of its driver-assist systems engaged.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of engaged
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  • For sponsored products ads, the FTC alleges advertisers paid their full winning bid about 80% of the time in 2024.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • His Know Your Rights Camp has helped pay for 150 independent autopsies — such as the one for Nolan Wells this year — and has also paid hundreds of thousands in legal grants and bail relief.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of paid

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“Hired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hired. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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