different between hire vs autorickshaw

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?r, h???r, IPA^(key): /ha??/, /?ha??/
• (General American) enPR: h?r, h???r, IPA^(key): /ha??/, /?ha??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Homophone: higher

Etymology 1

From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English h?r (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *h??iju (“hire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs-. Compare Hittite ???????????? (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).

Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).

Noun

hire (plural hires)

1. Payment for the temporary use of something.

2. (obsolete) Reward, payment.

   • The labourer is worthy of his hire.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?

3. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

4. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

Synonyms

• (state of being hired): employment, employ

Derived terms

• hire car
• hireling
• hireman

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English hiren, heren, huren, from Old English h?rian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”).

Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”).

Verb

hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)

1. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

   Synonym: rent
2. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
3. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.

4. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.

5. (intransitive) To accept employment.

Antonyms

• (to employ): fire

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• rent

Anagrams

• ReHi, heir, rehi

Abron

Etymology

From Akan hyire (“white clay”).

Noun

hire

1. white clay

References

• Trutenau, Languages of the Akan Area: Papers in Western Kwa Linguistics (1976)

Basque

Pronunciation

• (Southern) IPA^(key): /i.?e/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /hi.?e/

Pronoun

hire

1. genitive of hi, your

Japanese

Romanization

hire

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle Dutch

Contraction

hire

1. Contraction of hi d?er.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hez?i, dative singular plural of *hiz (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e (“here; this”).

Alternative forms

• hir, hyre, hyr, ire, ir, here, her, ere, er, heyre, heore, hare, hure, hur, hurre, huere

Determiner

hire (nominative pronoun sche)

2. Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner: her, of her.
3. Used in place of the possessive suffix -es to denote possession by an antecedent noun.
   • 1430, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.

     Here begynnyt the wyf of bathe hir tale.

Synonyms

• his

Descendants

• English: her
• Scots: her

See also

Pronoun

hire (nominative sche)

2. Third-person singular feminine genitive pronoun: hers.

Synonyms

• hires

References

• “hir, pron.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

Etymology 2

From Old English hire.

Pronoun

hire (nominative sche)

2. Third-person singular feminine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: her.
3. (reflexive) herself.
4. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.

See also

References

• “hir(e), pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

Etymology 3

From Old English here.

Noun

hire

1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

hire

1. neuter singular of hiren

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xi.re/, [?hi.re]

Pronoun

hire

1. genitive/dative of h?o

Descendants

• Middle English: hire, hir, hyre, hyr, ire, ir, here, her, ere, er, heyre, heore, hare, hure, hur, hurre, huere
  • English: her
  • Scots: her

English

Etymology

auto- +? rickshaw

Noun

autorickshaw (plural autorickshaws)

1. A motorized rickshaw of South Asia and East Asia, often available for hire in the manner of a taxi.

Translations

See also

• tuk-tuk
• songthaew