hired
HYRD/ˈhaɪɹd/UKHY-uhd/ˈhaɪəd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of hire.
They hired a local band to play at the wedding.
He had hired a lawyer before the case ever reached court.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty, so only its neighbors tell the tenses apart: they hired a band is simple past, while she has been hired is perfect and passive at once. Giving someone a job is the general meaning. In British use the same form also covers paying for a thing or renting premises, as in a hired hall. It can even stand without an object, for the person who accepts the work.
hired is a form of hire
hire, verb: To take someone on for a job, paying them for the work they do. Full entry
- Spelling
- hire → hired: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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