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Hire

To initiate employment for a person. That is, one hires an employee when one asks him/her to accept a job and he/she agrees. The employer agrees to pay wages and/or salary to the employee, who agrees to perform certain services for the employer. See also: Fire.

hire

the use by individuals or businesses of an ASSET that is leased to them by the owner of the asset in return for a financial payment (the hire charge). Hiring provides a means for consumers or firms to make use of assets without having to make large cash payments to purchase them. See LEASING.

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Sherry was nice, too - not to mention talented and qualified - so she was hired.

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s have been hired over the last 25 years, and the qualified black candidates' resumes were thrown in the trash.

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Fox Interactive Media (FIM) is parent company to MySpace and recently invested in Simply Hired with an aim to expand the reach of the Simply Hired search engine and to bring job search to a variety of FIM websites.

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Personnel General Manager Margaret Whelan said she is confident the six new officers hired have been thoroughly questioned during polygraph tests and do not pose a risk to the department.

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Our mission is to help people find more jobs, from more employers," said Gautam Godhwani, CEO of Simply Hired.

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Applicants are not automatically hired, but are ranked according to their scores.

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In all, the city hired 1,136 civilian employees since Jan.

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During the 2002-03 television season, 13 of the top 40 shows had not hired any minority directors, 10 had not hired female directors and three had excluded both women and minorities.

DIVERSITY FALLS SHORT IN PRIME TIME DGA REPORT CITES LACK OF MINORITIES, WOMEN SOURCE} BY GREG HERNANDEZ STAFF WRITER