Hire vs Select - What's the difference?
hire | select |
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.
* , chapter=16
, 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.
Privileged, specially selected.
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* (1800-1859)
*:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Of high quality; top-notch.
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To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
As a noun hire
is .As an adjective select is
select.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.”}}
Antonyms
* (to employ) fireDerived terms
* hired gun * hired handAnagrams
* * ----select
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(en verb)- He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
- The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
