# hiring

Pronunciation: US say "HY-ring" /haɪɹ.ɪŋ/; UK say "HY-uh-ring" /haɪə.ɹɪŋ/

## Noun

1. The act of taking someone on as a paid employee.
   - Simple: The act of choosing someone and giving them a job.
   - _The store's hiring picked up sharply before the holiday season._
   - _Careful hiring helps a business avoid costly staffing mistakes._
3. A fair or market, now historical, where servants and laborers were engaged for work.
   - Simple: An old fair or market where people looked for work as servants.
   - _At the Martinmas hiring, farm servants negotiated their wages for the coming year._
   - _The annual hiring drew laborers from across the county to the market town._

## Verb

2. Present participle of hire. — present participle and gerund of hire
   - Simple: Present participle of hire. Use this form for the action as it happens now.
   - _The restaurant is hiring servers ahead of the busy season._
   - _Several companies are hiring remotely now._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/hiring (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).