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Definition/Meaning

(noun)

the act of employing someone for wages;

e.g. She is a new hire, she joined last week.

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Similar Words

Assume

Charter

Conscription

Emolument

Employ

Employment

Engage

Engagement

Envelope

Fee

Gig

Lease

Packet

Pay

Payment

Place

Recruit

Recruitment

Rent

Retain

Salary

Stipend

Sublease

Sublet

Wage

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Opposite Words

Ax

Boot

Bounce

Break

Bust

Can

Cashier

Degrade

Demote

Discharge

Dismiss

Dismissal

Dismissive

Downgrade

Fire

Firing

Furlough

Layoff

Leave

Liberty

Reduce

Release

Removal

Remove

Retire

Retirement

Sack

Severance

Suspension

Terminate

Unemployment

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Related Words

Advance

Appointment

Apprentice

Assignment

Bespeak

Book

Compensation

Conscription

Contract

Earnings

Enlist

Headhunt

Incumbency

Job

Lease

Let

Occupation

Order

Partner

Place

Position

Post

Profit

Promote

Recompense

Recruitment

Redress

Rehire

Remittance

Remuneration

Rent

Reparation

Request

Requisition

Requital

Reserve

Restitution

Return

Scout

Situation

Subcontract

Sublease

Sublet

Tenure

Upgrade

Work

Yield

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Quotes

• "You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you." -- Jim Rohn

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