rehire

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verb

re·​hire (ˌ)rē-ˈhī(-ə)r 

rehired; rehiring

transitive verb

: to hire (someone) back into the same company or job

Her MO: She would simply quit, only to be rehired with her demands met.

—Lorraine Ali

Nineteen employees in the front office were let go; some of those people have been rehired on a contract basis to do the same jobs.

—Tim Kurkjian

rehire

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noun

re·​hire ˈrē-ˌhī(-ə)r 

plural rehires

1

: a person who has been rehired

Whether the employee is a new hire or a rehire is not relevant for processing the payroll.

—Vicki M. Lambert

2

: the act of rehiring a former employee or group of employees

The company has no plans for a rehire.

Examples of rehire in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

There have been plenty of demonstrations of the inefficiency of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), from having to rehire workers to being forced to admit claims of vast savings were bogus. —Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025

Trump lawyers urge the Supreme Court to block a San Francisco judge’s order to rehire workers. —Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025

Noun

There were no specific figures as to how many of those rehires were for the Forest Service. —Julia Gomez, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025

Roughly 200,000 dismissals were mentioned, but there have also been some rehires of critical workers as well as a few reversals by courts. —Erik Sherman, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1766, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1927, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for rehire

• admire
• afire
• aspire
• backfire
• esquire
• expire
• haywire
• hellfire
• inquire
• inspire
• newswire
• perspire