hire
- n a newly hired employee
the new hires need special training - n the act of hiring something or someone
he signed up for a week's car hire - v engage or hire for work
They hired two new secretaries in the department - v hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- v engage for service under a term of contract
hired help
- n employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)
hiring hall
- n a union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation
hirohito
- n emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989)
hiroshima
- n a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
hirschfeld
- n United States artist noted for his line-drawn caricatures (1904-2003)
hirschsprung's disease
- n congenital condition in which the colon does not have the normal network of nerves; there is little urge to defecate so the feces accumulate and cause megacolon