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hire - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | hire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | commission for responsibility, use |
| Synonyms: | appoint, authorize, book, bring in, carry, charter, delegate, draft, employ, empower, engage, enlist, exploit, lease, let, obtain, occupy, pick, place, pledge, procure, promise, put on*, rent, retain, secure, select, take on, utilize, add to payroll, bring on board, contract for, fill a position, find help, give a break, give job to, give work, ink, make use of, put to work, sign on, sign up*, sublease, sublet, truck with |
| Antonyms: | discharge, fire, lay off, let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | charter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reserve, commission |
| Synonyms: | allow, authorize, borrow, contract, employ, engage, hire, lease, let, license, permit, rent, sanction |
| Antonyms: | cancel |
| Main Entry: | commission |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | authorize or delegate task |
| Synonyms: | accredit, appoint, assign, bespeak, bid, charge, command, commit, consign, constitute, contract, crown, deputize, dispatch, employ, empower, enable, engage, enlist, enroll, entrust, hire, inaugurate, induct, instruct, invest, license, name, nominate, ordain, order, select, send, confide to, depute |
| Antonyms: | retract, unauthorize |
| Main Entry: | enlist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sign up for responsibility |
| Synonyms: | admit, appoint, assign, attract, call to arms, conscript, draft, embody, employ, engage, enroll, enter, enter into, gather, get, hire, hitch, incorporate, induct, initiate, inscribe, interest, join, levy, list, mobilize, muster, oblige, obtain, place, procure, record, recruit, register, reserve, secure, serve, take on, volunteer, call up, conscribe, join up, press into service, sign on |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, shun |
| Main Entry: | fee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charge for service or privilege |
| Synonyms: | account, ante*, bill, bite*, chunk*, commission, compensation, consideration, cost, cut*, emolument, end*, expense, gravy*, handle, hire, honorarium, house*, juice*, pay, payment, percentage, piece*, price, recompense, remuneration, reward, salary, share, slice*, stipend, take*, toll, wage, piece of the action, rake-off, take-in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rent object, residence |
| Synonyms: | charter, hire, let, loan, rent out, sublease, sublet |
| Antonyms: | sell |
| Main Entry: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from employment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon*, bread*, commission, compensation, consideration, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, requital, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, scale, settlement, stipend, wage, wages, defrayment, emoluments, meed, recompensation, stipendium, take-home, takings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | payment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fee; installment of fee |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, advance, alimony, amends, amount, award, bounty, cash, deposit, disbursement, discharge, down, fee, hire, outlay, part, pension, portion, premium, reckoning, recompense, redress, refund, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, retaliation, return, reward, salary, settlement, subsidy, sum, support, wage, amortization, annuity, defrayal, defrayment, indemnification, pay-off, paying, quittance, remittance |
| Main Entry: | rent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay or charge fee for use, service, or privilege |
| Synonyms: | borrow, charter, contract, engage, hire, lease, lend, let, loan, take it, allow the use of, make available, put on loan, sublet |
| Antonyms: | buy, purchase |
| Main Entry: | salary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money paid for work done |
| Synonyms: | bacon*, bread*, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, income, pay, recompense, remuneration, scale, stipend, take, wage, wages, payroll, take-home |
| Notes: | salary is from Latin salarium - originally prize money given to Roman soldiers to buy salt; a person receiving regular payment for work is receiving a salary, while one who is paid by the hour or for an amount of work done is being paid a wage |
| Antonyms: | debt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stipend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment for services |
| Synonyms: | allowance, award, consideration, emolument, fee, gratuity, hire, pay, pension, salary, take, wage |
| Main Entry: | wage/wages |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings for work |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon*, bread*, compensation, cut, emolument, fee, hire, pay, payment, price, receipts, recompense, remuneration, return, reward, salary, share, stipend, sugar*, take*, bacon and eggs, returns, take-home |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | select and give a responsibility |
| Synonyms: | accredit, allow, appoint, ascribe, attach, attribute, authorize, cast, charge, choice, commission, commit, credit, delegate, deputize, designate, downlink, download, draft, elect, empower, enroll, entrust, hang on*, hire, impute, name, nominate, ordain, refer, reference, select, slot, tab, tag, hold responsible, pin on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | book |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | register, arrange for |
| Synonyms: | bespeak, bill, charter, engage, enroll, enter, hire, order, organize, procure, program, reserve, schedule, set up, line up, make reservation, pencil in, preengage, sew up |
| Antonyms: | bow out, cancel |
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take for temporary use |
| Synonyms: | accept loan of, acquire, beg, bite, bum, cadge*, chisel*, give a note for, hire, hit up, lift, mooch*, negotiate, obtain, pawn, pledge, raise money, rent, run into debt, scrounge, see one's uncle, soak, sponge, take on loan, tap, touch, use temporarily |
| Antonyms: | give, lend, pay, return |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working for a living; |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, business, calling, craft, employ, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, exercise, exertion, field, function, game*, hire, job, line, métier, mission, number, occupation, occupying, office, position, post, profession, pursuit, racket*, retaining, service, setup, situation, thing*, trade, using, vocation, work, awarding, carrying, commissioning, contracting, engagement in activity application, exercising, hiring, recruitment, servicing, signing on, taking on, what one is into |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | command, authorize |
| Synonyms: | adjure, bid, book, buy, call for, call the shots*, charge, decree, dictate, direct, enact, engage, enjoin, hire, instruct, obtain, ordain, prescribe, request, require, reserve, rule the roost*, secure, tell, warn, apply for, call the signals, contract for, pull strings, send away for |
| Antonyms: | disallow, prevent, rescind |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | price |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial value |
| Synonyms: | amount, appraisal, asking price, assessment, barter, bill, bounty, ceiling, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, damage, demand, disbursement, discount, dues, estimate, expenditure, expense, face value, fare, fee, figure, hire, outlay, output, pay, payment, premium, prize, quotation, ransom, rate, reckoning, retail, return, reward, score, tab, tariff, ticket, toll, tune*, valuation, wages, wholesale, worth, appraisement, exaction, sticker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fee paid for use, service, or privilege |
| Synonyms: | hire, lease, payment, rental, tariff |
| Antonyms: | purchase |
| Main Entry: | take on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume, accept |
| Synonyms: | acquire, add, adopt, annex, append, attempt, become, begin, commence, develop, embrace, employ, endeavor, engage, enlist, enroll, espouse, handle, hire, launch, put on, retain, tackle, take up, try, turn, undertake, venture, address oneself to, agree to do, come to have, have a go at, set about, take in hand, take upon oneself |
| Antonyms: | refuse, reject |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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