hired

1. VERB 雇用
   If you hire someone, you employ them or pay them to do a particular job for you.
   1. Sixteen of the contestants have hired lawyers and are suing the organisers...
      有16名参赛者已经请了律师，正在起诉主办方。
   2. The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts...
      其余的工作人员签的是短期雇用合同。
   3. He will be in charge of all hiring and firing at PHA.
      他将负责公共房产管理局所有人员的雇用和解聘事务。
   4. ...the mystery assassin (who turned out to be a hired killer).
      神秘刺客（最终被证实是一名雇用杀手）
2. VERB （短期）租用
   If you hire something, you pay money to the owner so that you can use it for a period of time.
   1. To hire a car you must produce a passport and a current driving licence...
      租车须出示护照及有效驾照。
   2. Her hired car was found abandoned at Beachy Head.
      她那辆租来的车被发现遗弃在比奇角。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 rent


3. N-UNCOUNT 租赁（业）;出租（业务）
   You use hire to refer to the activity or business of hiring something.
   1. They booked our hotel, and organised car hire...
      他们为我们订好了旅馆并安排了租车事宜。
   2. Hire of skis, boots and clothing, is all available.
      滑雪板、滑雪靴和滑雪服皆有出租。
   3. ...a day's outing by hire car to the southern coast of Crete.
      赴克里特南部海滨租车一日游

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 rental


4. PHRASE 供出租;待租
   If something is for hire, it is available for you to hire.
   1. Fishing tackle is available for hire.
      有钓具可供出租。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 for rent


Do not confuse hire, rent, and let. In British English, if you pay a sum of money to use something for a short time, you say that you hire it. In American English, it is more common to say that you rent it. He was unable to hire another car... He rented a car for the weekend. If you make a series of payments to use something for a long time, you say that you rent it. ...the apartment he had rented... He rented a TV. You can say that you rent a house or room to someone when they pay you money to live there. We rented our house to an American professor. You can also say that you let a house or room to someone. They were letting a room to a school teacher.
不要混淆hire, rent和let。表示短期租用某物时，英国英语用hire，而美国英语则更常用rent。如，He was unable to hire another car（他没钱再多租一辆车了），He rented a car for the weekend（他租了辆车度周末）。表示长期租用某物并分期支付费用时，要用rent，如，the apartment he had rented（他租住的公寓），He rented a TV（他租了台电视机）。也可以用rent表示将房子或房间租给别人住并收取租金，如，We rented our house to an American professor（我们把房子租给了一位美国教授）。出租房子或房间也可用let，如，They were letting a room to a school teacher（他们把一个房间租给了一名老师）。

1. He hired a top QC to defend him.
   他雇了一名顶级的王室法律顾问为他辩护。
2. Both women had hired illegal aliens for child care
   两个女人都曾雇过非法入境者照看孩子。
3. They hired a nurse to care for her.
   他们雇了个护士来照顾她。
4. He has hired a lawyer to defend him against the allegations
   他已聘请了一位律师针对这些指控为自己辩护。
5. The gunman had been hired by a rival Mafia family to do the dirty deed.
   一个敌对的黑手党家族雇用了那个枪手来实施这一卑劣行动。
6. The hired carriage was dismissed.
   雇来的马车被打发走了。
7. He alleged that they had hired an assassin to dispose of him.
   他宣称他们已雇了刺客来除掉他。
8. If she had the chance to do it over, she would have hired a press secretary.
   如果有机会重头来过，她会雇一个新闻秘书。
9. They hired eight college graduates to start work after the college year ends in March.
   他们聘用了8名大学毕业生，他们将于3月份毕业后开始工作。
10. A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
    雇了一个承包商抽干水库的水，挖掉一个区域的泥土后再用黏土填上。
11. When a play finishes its run, many of the costumes are hired out to amateur dramatics companies and schools.
    一部戏剧连演结束后，很多服装都会租借给业余剧团和学校。
12. Sixteen of the contestants have hired lawyers and are suing the organisers
    有16名参赛者已经请了律师，正在起诉主办方。
13. The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts
    其余的工作人员签的是短期雇用合同。
14. Her hired car was found abandoned at Beachy Head.
    她那辆租来的车被发现遗弃在比奇角。
15. When Wardell was interviewed, he was impressive, and on that basis, he was hired
    沃德尔参加面试的时候给人留下了深刻印象，所以基于这点，他被雇用了。
16. Marks& Spencer recently hired model Linda Evangelista to launch its new range.
    玛莎百货最近聘请模特儿琳达·埃万杰利斯塔为其发布新系列产品。
17. Workmen were hired to remodel and enlarge the farm buildings
    雇用了工人来改造和扩建农场建筑。
18. He hired scabs to replace strikers.
    他雇了工贼接替罢工者。
19. Josef Krips at the State Opera hired her in spite of the fact that she had never sung on stage
    尽管她从未在舞台上演唱过，国家歌剧院的约瑟夫·克里普斯还是聘用了她。
20. The guards were originally hired to watch over the houses as they were being built.
    最初雇门卫是为了看护正在修建的房子。
21. The company hired the President's special trade representative to lobby Mr. Pierce.
    公司雇用了总统的特别商业顾问去游说皮尔斯先生。
22. All the managerial personnel at the factory are hired on contract.
    工厂所有管理人员都是聘用的。
23. I am not a hired agent for the former president.
    我可不是那位前总统的说客。
24. He hired a man to mow the lawn.
    他雇人割草。
25. He was shipwrecked and somehow made his way to Hong kong, where he hired on as a hand.
    他的船失事了，不过他设法到达了香港，在那里他受雇当了一名工人。
26. She hired a garment.
    她租了一件衣服。
27. He hired out his donkey cart to the tourists.
    他把自己的驴车租给旅游者。
28. He hired a harmonium.
    他租了一架小风琴。
29. They hired many people now.
    他们雇用了很多人。
30. I'm a new employee. I was hired yesterday.
    我是个新雇员，我是昨天才受雇的。

adj

1. hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers
   1. a chartered plane
   2. the chartered buses arrived on time

   Synonym:    charteredleased

2. having services engaged for a fee
   1. hired hands
   2. a hired gun