outhire

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Etymology[edit]

From out- +‎ hire.

Verb[edit]

outhire (third-person singular simple present outhires, present participle outhiring, simple past and past participle outhired)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To hire out.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      When good was onely for it selfe desyred, / And all men sought their owne, and none no more; / When Iustice was not for most meed outhyred, / But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred.

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