hire
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a newly hired employee
the new hires need special training
Types & categories
- employee hypernym
Sense 2 verb
engage or hire for work
They hired two new secretaries in the department
Types & categories
- featherbed hyponym
- fill hyponym
- engage hyponym
- ship hyponym
- sign up hyponym
- rat hyponym
- subcontract hyponym
Related & opposite
- give the axe antonym
- employment derivation
- hirer derivation
- employee derivation
- employer derivation
- employment derivation
Sense 3 noun
the act of hiring something or someone
he signed up for a week's car hire
Types & categories
- human action hypernym
Sense 4 verb
hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
Types & categories
- contract hypernym
Related & opposite
- charter derivation
- lease derivation
- leaseholder derivation
- renter derivation
- rent derivation
- term of a contract derivation
Sense 5 verb
engage for service under a term of contract
We took an apartment on a quiet street
Types & categories
- get hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | employee |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | give the axe |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | employment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hirer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | employee |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | employer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | employment |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | featherbed |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | fill |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | engage |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ship |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sign up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | rat |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | subcontract |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | human action |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | charter |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | lease |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | leaseholder |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | renter |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rent |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | term of a contract |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | contract |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | renting |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | charter |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | lease |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | renter |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | rent |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | term of a contract |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | get |