Hire

n. Compensation for the use of a thing or for labor or services. Carr v. State, 50 Ind. 180; Learned-Letcher Lumber Co. v. Fowler, 109 Ala. 169, 19 South. 396. v. To purchase the temporary use of a thing or to stipulate for the labor or services of another. See Hieing. To engage in service for a stipulated reward, as to hire a servant for a year, or laborers by the day or month; to engage a man to temporary service for wages. To "employ" is a word of more enlarged signification. A man hired to labor is employed, but a man may be employed in a work who is not hired.

McCluskey v. Cromwell, 11 N. Y. 605.

For definitions of the various species of this class of contracts, under their Latin names, see Locatio and foliowing titles.