Hire
(pron.) See Here, pron. |
Hire
(n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor |
Hire
(n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. |
Hire
(n.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent |
Hire
(n.) To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages |
Hire
(n.) To grant the temporary use of, for compensation |
Metric system
() See Metric, a. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To pursue and obtain |
Purchase
(v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent |
Purchase
(v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To buy for a price. |
Purchase
(v. t.) To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage |
Purchase
(v. i.) To put forth effort to obtain anything |
Purchase
(v. i.) To acquire wealth or property. |
Purchase
(v. t.) The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. |
Purchase
(v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property. |
Purchase
(v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price |
Purchase
(v. t.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly |
Purchase
(v. t.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. |
Purchase
(v. t.) Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like |
Purchase
(v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. |
System
(n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific |
System
(n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole |
System
(n.) Regular method or order |
System
(n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. |
System
(n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ |
System
(n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. |