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 In December, Nvidia bought assets from the AI chip startup for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record and hired Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra and a group of engineers. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026 The spike in arrests comes as the agency, infused with billions of dollars last summer by Congress, has also hired 12,000 new deportation officers and investigative agents. — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 25 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 Iowa was the lone FBS school to offer Pieper, slotted as a recruit below seven of the eight from Nebraska who signed with the Huskers weeks after Rhule was hired. — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 In order to land an offer after such a highly competitive process, some candidates are reportedly spending more than $4,000 on private coaching to help them get hired. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 Her big break came when country star Porter Wagoner hired her to be his sidekick on The Porter Wagoner Show. — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026 Under Bartlett, the state hired a third-party administrator called Allegiance to replace BCBS of Montana, which had held the contract for more than three decades. — Bob Herman, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hired
  1. rented
  2. employed
  3. recruited
  4. engaged
  5. paid
Verb
  • Her late parents, Richard and Doris Denney, rented a houseboat for their Bullfrog, Utah, family and explored the waters several times a year.
    — Swasti Singhai, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • On my mini moon in Cancun, my husband and I rented a car and ventured to see nearby Mayan ruins.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of rented
Verb
  • According to the filing, Netflix employed an average of 342 staff in the UK in 2025, up from 263 the year before.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Harte is no longer employed by the Naugatuck Board of Education, police said.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 23 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
  • Latonya Marble, the program coordinator, will also plan activities to keep students of all interests engaged.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Not Netflix‘s The Whisper Man, though, which doesn’t need the extra time and sails by in under two hours as a movie in a pulsating pace that keeps us engaged and guessing from beginning to end.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of engaged
Verb
  • Connie Britton paid tribute to Dolly Parton, less than two weeks after the loss of her Nashville costar Hayden Panettiere.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Carpenter is one of several stars who have paid tribute to Parton following the news of her death.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of paid

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“Hired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hired. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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