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81hire 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./ …
82hire-purchase system — /huyeur perr cheuhs/, Brit. a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it. Also called hire purchase. [1895 1900] * * * …
83hire purchase — noun Hire purchase is used before these nouns: ↑agreement …
84hire purchase — Synonyms and related words: acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, amortization, amortizement, binder, borrowing, buy, buying, buying power, buying up, cash, cash payment, catalog buying, clearance, coemption, consumer power, consumer sovereignty,… …
85hire\ 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 …
86hire out — PHRASAL VERB If you hire out something such as a car or a person s services, you allow them to be used in return for payment. [V P n (not pron)] Companies hiring out narrow boats report full order books... [V P n (not pron)] His agency hires out… …
87hire out — 1) accept a job, take employment He decided to hire himself out as a dancer while he was going to school. 2) rent to someone We rented out our boat last summer because we were too busy to use it …
88hire something out — grant the temporary use of something in return for payment. → hire …
89hire-purchase — /haɪə ˈpɜtʃəs / (say huyuh perchuhs) noun 1. a system whereby a person pays for a commodity by regular instalments, while having full use of it after the first payment. –adjective 2. relating to or bought with the aid of such a system. –verb (t)… …
90hire-purchase company — /haɪə pɜ:tʃɪs ˌkʌmp(ə)ni/ noun a company which provides money for hire purchase …
