Hired is an English word with synonyms like employed. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hired in a sentence
Related words
Hired meaning
simple past and past participle of hire
Synonyms of Hired
Using Hired
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of hire
- Useful related words include: employed, chartered, leased, unchartered.
- In the example corpus, hired often appears in combinations such as: was hired, hired by, hired to.
Example sentences (20)
While FMTs are usually hired on short-term contracts, this group of six are the first mitigation staff to be permanently hired by Tamworth RFS, a decision Mr Stimson says will pay off almost immediately.
Desai, hired from the Seahawks last offseason to replace newly hired HC Jonathan Gannon, oversaw a decline in a unit that was one of the league's best when Philadelphia reached last year's Super Bowl.
Fontenot was hired by the Falcons in the same week they hired Smith in 2021.
She is, in essence, a hired gun—an exceptionally qualified and capable one, but a hired gun nonetheless.
Previous reports suggest Gregory Middleton has been hired as the show's cinematographer, previously earning credits on A Babysitters Guide To Monster Hunting, Marvel Studios has also hired production designer Stefania Celia in the same role.
This pick would have been different before Ron Rivera was hired, but he’s already hired former Raiders coach Jack Del Rio and Young is a perfect fit for his vanilla 4-3 scheme.
Using the element of surprise and parliamentary maneuvering, Beaufort County Council hired, then un-hired Gruber at a chaotic July 23, 2018 meeting — even though he was not considered as a final candidate.
If they seek help from Allah based on the fact that He has promised it to them, then their likeness is that of a hired worker who refuses to do the work for which he was hired, then demands his wages.
Precinct walkers are hired, polls are done – repeatedly, expensive consultants are hired – the Garaventas fund all of this stuff, but it’s all off the books – the money being spent is listed nowhere.
Purdue hired Jeff Brohm as Boilermakers coach about a month before the Gophers hired Fleck.
Since Oregon’s law was passed, Portland State University (PSU) hired its first African American woman athletic director and the University of Oregon hired its first African American head football coach.
Last guys hired during the annual carousel have better records than the first ones hired.
The teachers were hired January 4 after undergoing a screening process that included validation of their credentials, a comprehensive examination, a teaching demonstration, and a panel interview that guaranteed only good quality teachers were hired.
This lawyer was to be hired as of Nov. 21. As of the writing of this article, the has not received word as to which lawyer was hired.
Fifty Chinese laborers were hired by the Central Pacific Railroad in February of 1865, and soon more and more Chinese men were hired.
Former Oakland Athletics G.M. and MLB executive Sandy Alderson was hired to run the team, who hired Terry Collins as manager.
Hired labour Despite the multitude of slaves, hired labour was often needed, especially at harvest.
Some artists hired their own writers; Helen Hokinson hired James Reid Parker in 1931.
The cab companies hired "strike breakers", and the cab drivers union hired "sluggers" who ragged through the downtown Chicago area looking for cabs and drivers not participating in the strike.
To an American, a "hired car" would therefore imply a driver is being hired with the car, such as a taxi, limousine, Uber driver, etc. In the UK, a saloon is a vehicle that is equivalent to the American sedan.
Common combinations with hired
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- was hired 36×
- hired by 27×
- hired to 17×
- been hired 14×
- be hired 13×
- hired as 13×
- hired in 12×
- were hired 12×
- has hired 12×
- being hired 7×