HIRE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hire out mean? 

• HIRE OUT (verb)
  The verb HIRE OUT has 1 sense:

1. grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee

  Familiarity information: HIRE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIRE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

farm out; hire out; rent out

Context example:

He hired himself out as a cook

Hypernyms (to "hire out" is one way to...):

lend; loan (give temporarily; let have for a limited time)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

There is likewise a kind of beggarly princes in Europe, not able to make war by themselves, who hire out their troops to richer nations, for so much a day to each man; of which they keep three-fourths to themselves, and it is the best part of their maintenance: such are those in many northern parts of Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)