hiring

Pluralhirings (some meanings)

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The act of choosing someone and giving them a job.

   Like picking a new player to join your team.

   The company slowed its hiring during the hard times.

   Hiring is the manager's job this quarter.

   Similarrecruitment, recruiting, employment

   Oppositefiring, dismissal

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of hire. Use this form for the action as it happens now.

   The factory is hiring new workers this week.

   They are hiring extra staff for the summer.

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3. 3
   nounhistoricalcountable

   An old fair or market where people looked for work as servants.

   Like a job fair, but long ago and only for farm and household workers.

   Young laborers crowded the hiring each spring, hoping to be taken on.

   He met his future employer at the village hiring.

   Similarfair

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