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hiring

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//haɪə.ɹɪŋ//
  • United States//haɪɹ.ɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈhaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ//

The act by which an employee is hired.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hirepresent participle and gerund of hire

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which an employee is hired.

    hirings and firings

    Even the most seasoned analysts of British politics were struck by the brutality of Ms. May’s hirings and firings.

  2. 2

    historicalA fair or market where servants were engaged.

Forms

plural
hirings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).