Engage one's services
The crossword clue "Engage one's services" is answered by HIRE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HIRE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HIRE answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2004. 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 new employees - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
- 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.
- ___ one's time (wait) - BIDE, used 89 times
- Lose one's footing - SLIP, used 74 times
- Toot one's own horn - BRAG, used 65 times
- Twiddling one's thumbs - IDLE, used 63 times
- "This one's ___" - ONME, used 59 times
- Put one's foot down - STEP, used 57 times
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