HIRE Copy link • HIRE 1. s. merces; yearly, annua (for persons and things, as pay, wages for hire): vectigal (as the income of one who lets on hire). 2. v. conducere, with or without mercede or pretio. Hired laborers, operae conductae or mercenariae. To hire one’s self out, se or operam suam locare (Plaut.); to anybody, alicui; for any purpose, ad aliquam rem.