hire system

noun

The system of buying and selling things via hire purchase.

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Meanings

noun
  1. The system of buying and selling things via hire purchase.

    But the poverty of Kingsland is the diseased poverty of bead flowers in the front room and sticky furniture on the hire system.

    1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company
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APA

hire system. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hire%20system

MLA

“hire system.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hire%20system. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hire system,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hire%20system.

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