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hireworthy

adj

Etymology

From hire + -worthy.

  1. derived from *kewHs-✻
  2. inherited from *hūzijaną✻
  3. inherited from *hūʀiju✻ — “payment”
  4. inherited from hȳr — “employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”
  5. inherited from hire
  6. suffixed as hireworthy — “hire + worthy”

Definitions

  1. Worthy of hire

    Worthy of hire; employable.

    • The volunteers and interns we note as hire-worthy are the ones who quickly show their outgoing, but appropriate personalities.
    • Instead, once you hit the fifty-mile mark, you were no longer hireworthy or sexworthy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA