hire

hire
Verb: To employ a person. To rent or engage the use of an article, receiving it as a bailee under obligation to return the article at the end of the term of the hiring. Farquhar v McAlevy, 142 Pa, 233. Noun: The amount paid or to be paid for the services of a person. The amount paid or to be paid for the use of a chattel. Bledsoe v Nixon, 69 NC 89. <b></b>See bailee for hire; carrier for hire; contract of hire; operator for hire.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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