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71Hire Purchase — A method of buying goods through making installment payments over time. The term hire purchase originated in the U.K., and is similar to what are called rent to own arrangements in the United States. Under a hire purchase contract, the buyer is… …
72hire sb out — UK US hire sb/sth out Phrasal Verb with hire({{}}/haɪər/ verb [T] mainly UK ► COMMERCE to arrange for another person or company to use someone s services or something in return for payment: »During the daytime, the studio is hired out in order to …
73hire sb/sth out — UK US hire sb/sth out Phrasal Verb with hire({{}}/haɪər/ verb [T] mainly UK ► COMMERCE to arrange for another person or company to use someone s services or something in return for payment: »During the daytime, the studio is hired out in order to …
74hire sth out — UK US hire sb/sth out Phrasal Verb with hire({{}}/haɪər/ verb [T] mainly UK ► COMMERCE to arrange for another person or company to use someone s services or something in return for payment: »During the daytime, the studio is hired out in order to …
75hire yourself out — UK US hire yourself out Phrasal Verb with hire({{}}/haɪər/ verb [T] mainly UK ► HR to arrange to be paid to do a job for another person or company: »He bagan hiring himself out as a freelance computer expert …
76hire car — /ˈhaɪə ka/ (say huyuh kah) noun a car, usually with driver, available for hire: *In Darwin a couple of planes might be chartered almost as one would ring a hire car in Sydney. –coralie rees, 1953 …
77hire purchase — /haɪə pɜ:tʃɪs/ noun a system of buying something by paying a sum regularly each month ● to buy a refrigerator on hire purchase Abbr HP (NOTE: American English is installment plan or installment sale) ♦ to sign a hire purchase agreement to sign a… …
78hire purchase — /ˌhaɪə pɜ:tʃɪs/ noun a system of buying something by paying a sum regularly each month ● to buy a refrigerator on hire purchase (NOTE: The US term is installment credit, installment plan or installment sale.) ♦ to sign a hire purchase agreement… …
79hire-purchase — noun installment plan we bought a car on the never never • Syn: ↑never never • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ir …
80hire out — {v.}, {informal} 1. To accept a job; take employment. * /Frank hired out as a saxophonist with a dance band./ 2. To rent (as owner). * /John used to hire out his tractor sometimes when he didn t need it himself./ …
