Have vs Hire - What's the difference?
have | hire |
To possess, own, hold.
To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
Used in forming the and the past perfect aspect.
must.
To give birth to.
To engage in sexual intercourse with.
To accept as a romantic partner.
(transitive with bare infinitive ) To cause to, by a command or request.
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To cause to be.
(transitive with bare infinitive ) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To depict as being.
Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)
(British, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
(Irish) To be able to speak a language.
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative
To trick, to deceive
(often with present participle) To allow
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
Payment for the temporary use of something.
(obsolete) Reward, payment.
* Bible, Luke x. 7
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
(label) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
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, title= (label) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
(label) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
(label) To accomplish by paying for services.
(label) To accept employment.
As an adjective have
is gaunt; pale and thin.As a noun hire is
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English
Verb
: Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast 'and second-person singular past tense''' hadst''' or ' haddest .- I have a house and a car.
- Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
- I have two sisters.
- The dog down the street has a lax owner.
- I have breakfast at six o'clock.
- Can I have a look at that?
- I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
- I have already eaten today.
- I had already eaten.
- I have to go.
- Note: there's a separate entry for have to .
- The couple always wanted to have children.
- My wife is having the baby right now!
- He's always bragging about how many women he's had .
- Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
- They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
- He had him arrested for trespassing.
- The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
- The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
- I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
- Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
- Anton Rogan, 8, was one of the runners-up in the Tick Tock Box short story competition, not Anton Rogers as we had it.'' — ''The Guardian .
- We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?
- Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?
- (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he ?
- I could have him!
- I'm gonna have you!
- I have no German .
- Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
- He had a cold last week.
- We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
- You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
- "You're a very naughty boy. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. I won't have you chasing the geese!"
Usage notes
Interrogative auxiliary verb have ...?' (''third-person singular'' '''has ...?''', ''third-person singular negative'' '''hasn't ...?''' ''or'' '''has ... not?''', ''negative for all other persons, singular and plural'' '''haven't ...?''' ''or'' '''have ... not? ); ''in each case, the ellipsis stands for a pronoun * Used with a following pronoun to form tag questions after statements that use "have" to form the perfect tense or (in UK usage) that use "have" in the present tense. *: “We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?” *: “Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?” *: “I'd bet that student hasn't studied yet, have they ?” *: “You've known all along, haven't you ?” *: “The sun has already set, has it not ?” *: (UK usage'') “He has some money, hasn't he ?” (''see usage notes below ) * This construction forms a tag that converts a present perfect tense sentence into a question. The tag always uses an object pronoun substituting for the subject. Negative sentences use has'' or ''have'', distinguished by number. Affirmative sentences use the same followed by ''not'', or alternatively, more commonly, and less formally, ''hasn't'' or ''haven't . (See ). * In American usage, this construction does not apply to present tense sentences with has'' or ''have , or their negations, as a verb; it does not apply either to the construction "have got". In those cases, use "does" or its negation instead. For example: "He has some money, doesn't he?" and "I have got enough time, don't I?" These constructions with "do", "does", "don't" or "doesn't" are considered incorrect in UK usage.Quotations
* (English Citations of "have")Derived terms
* -'ve * be had * have a ball * have a cow * have at you * have it in for * have it off * have had enough * have had it * have nots * have someone on * have to * havesSee also
* auxiliary verb * past tense * perfect tenseReferences
hire
English
Noun
(en noun)- The sign offered pedalos on hire .
- The labourer is worthy of his hire .
- I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire , / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
- ''When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire .
- We pair up each of our new hires''' with one of our original '''hires .
Synonyms
* (state of being hired) employment, employVerb
(hir)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}