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noun

Synonym Chooser

How is the word hire different from other verbs like it?

Some common synonyms of hire are charter, lease, let, and rent. While all these words mean "to engage or grant for use at a price," hire and let, strictly speaking, are complementary terms, hire implying the act of engaging or taking for use and let the granting of use.

we hired a car for the summer
decided to let the cottage to a young couple

In what contexts can charter take the place of hire?

The synonyms charter and hire are sometimes interchangeable, but charter applies to the hiring or letting of a vehicle usually for exclusive use.

charter a bus to go to the game

When can lease be used instead of hire?

The words lease and hire can be used in similar contexts, but lease strictly implies a letting under the terms of a contract but is often applied to hiring on a lease.

the diplomat leased an apartment for a year

When is it sensible to use rent instead of hire?

Although the words rent and hire have much in common, rent stresses the payment of money for the full use of property and may imply either hiring or letting.

instead of buying a house, they decided to rent
will not rent to families with children

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of hire
Verb
The Citrus Heights Sonic is hiring more than 45 jobs, according to the release. Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025 His father-in-law has since hired him an attorney and he has been questioned by the FBI, Kozak said. Vera Drymon, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
The hires follow the departure of founding partner José Lamali earlier this year. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025 Most of the workers in the lab area doing diagnostic testing are local hires, while corporate leadership has relocated to Louisville from various other states including Texas and Georgia. Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hire
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hire
Verb
  • Infrastructure must adapt to the pace of markets, users and workloads—subscribing to capabilities, renting intelligence and viewing the internet as an orchestration layer rather than a possession.
    Vincentas Grinius, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • More daring vacationers can rent kayaks or hop on a whale-watching excursion, Sunset said.
    Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The workers could be employed only by King and only for up to 10 months at a time.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of using a single bulky lens, the camera employs a thin mask embedded with dozens of tiny lenslets, each capturing a unique perspective of the same object.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • White-collar apprenticeships launched by Accenture, Aon, and JPMorgan Chase provide paid training in consulting, insurance, and finance, with direct pipelines to employment.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In the past decade, the over-all employment rate for adults with disabilities has risen from seventeen per cent to nearly twenty-three per cent, with a big jump since 2020.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The median annual salary for dispatchers is around $50,000, which may be decent on paper but falls short when weighed against the emotional and cognitive demands of the job.
    Jason Truppi, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • While Americans' salaries are projected to grow at a steady pace in 2026, following years of volatile market adjustments, some changes to their compensation are anticipated next year.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the state is working ahead to recruit more teachers as more families enroll in the program.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Officials said colleges should use their own resources to recruit high school students from underrepresented backgrounds, rather than relying on federal funding to do so.
    Silas Allen September 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Department of Labor withdrew a plan to establish a minimum wage for workers with disabilities and abolished wage protections for the home-health aides who assist millions of seniors and disabled people.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Therefore, there are some unfortunate parallels between young Gen Z needing to sacrifice wages due to wavering job opportunities and millennials graduating into the Great Recession.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In 2022, things came to a head when the company not only failed to pay its vendors but also ceased communication with their customers.
    Amanda Lauren, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The buyers also agree to pay those growers a small premium that is passed down to their workers.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Likewise, the internet has made fundraising much easier with the use of online payment methods, which are easy to set up and difficult to trace.
    Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In most cases, at least 75% of federal funds must go directly to wages and benefits for participants, with the payments usually being made by the local and statewide organizations that recruit the participants and place them into host agencies.
    Cal J. Halvorsen, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Hire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hire. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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