HIRED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

hired

verb

past tense of hire

as in rented

to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum the Youngs hired a limousine for their daughter's wedding

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as in employed

to provide with a paying job the farm hires teenagers to pick blueberries in the summer

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Recent Examples of hired Tissot hired a hygienist who confirmed his finding of elevated lead levels in Tissot’s own home. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Cousy sat out the next six seasons before getting hired as head coach of the Cincinnati Royals in 1969. — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026 Dismissing the general manager who hired Espada doesn’t bode well, but Crane made a clear distinction between the two men during the aftermath. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026 Scott hired Luca Khouri, a Jamaican artist, to photograph the campaign at the end of March, which was styled by Marika-Ella Ames. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 31 Aug. 2026 According to court records, Morgan was hired in the fall of 2025 and deployed to the surge in late January. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 In September of that year, the former couple hired a nanny, Elaine Rossi, to care for their kids. — Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026 Newmark Group—the real estate services firm hired by the Pierre’s board and controlled by Cantor Fitzgerald, the brokerage house previously run by Lutnick—could earn tens of millions more in commissions, The New York Times reported. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 Flowers decamped to Nashville, hired producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, whose work excels at mimicking the textures of older records, and recruited a band full of session-pro ringers. — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2026

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Her late parents, Richard and Doris Denney, rented a houseboat for their Bullfrog, Utah, family and explored the waters several times a year.

— Swasti Singhai, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
On my mini moon in Cancun, my husband and I rented a car and ventured to see nearby Mayan ruins.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of rented

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The Dispatch reported that an EMCC Athletics representative would not confirm whether Stephens remains employed by the school in another capacity.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Chicago police employed 1,102 total detectives as of May 2023, and 1,163 as of last week.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of employed

Verb

Summary Canadian universities have successfully recruited 64 international scholars, 48 from top American institutions like Harvard and MIT.

— Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Serving as the territory’s secretary of education between 2013 and 2017, overseeing all of its public schools from kindergarten through high school, he was recruited to Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 as a teacher.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of recruited

Verb

Latonya Marble, the program coordinator, will also plan activities to keep students of all interests engaged.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
Not Netflix‘s The Whisper Man, though, which doesn’t need the extra time and sails by in under two hours as a movie in a pulsating pace that keeps us engaged and guessing from beginning to end.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of engaged

Verb

For sponsored products ads, the FTC alleges advertisers paid their full winning bid about 80% of the time in 2024.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
His Know Your Rights Camp has helped pay for 150 independent autopsies — such as the one for Nolan Wells this year — and has also paid hundreds of thousands in legal grants and bail relief.

— Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026

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