Add new employees

The answer

HIRE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HIRE answer page.

Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HIRE

Every other clue in this collection answered by HIRE, most used first.

• Take on - used 184 times, most recently in 2026
• Employ - used 149 times, most recently in 2026
• Bring on board - used 141 times, most recently in 2026
• Put on the payroll - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Engage - used 74 times, most recently in 2025
• Add to the payroll - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Charter - used 68 times, most recently in 2025
• Add to the staff - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Give a job to - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Take on employees - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Bring on - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Put to work - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Rent - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Sign on - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Add to the team - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Bring aboard - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Do a personnel job - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Place on the payroll - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Put on staff - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Add staff - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Antonym of fire - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Engage one's services - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Give employment to - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• New employee - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• One way to fill an opening - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Put on - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Staff addition - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "This Gun for ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Word that rhymes with its opposite - used 6 times, most recently in 2009

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• "What ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 224 times
• "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
• New York canal - ERIE, used 150 times
• Not new - USED, used 132 times
• New Rochelle college - IONA, used 105 times
• New Mexico art colony - TAOS, used 100 times

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