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rehire

Rhymes with -aɪə(ɹ)

verb rehires · rehiring · rehired · re-hire

transitive To hire again. There are many upsides to rehiring former employees, according to management professor Peter Cappelli of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. The positives include savings on recruiting and training costs, maintaining associations between customers and employees, and the fact

noun rehires · re-hire

A former employee who has been hired again. Not all rehires have a happy ending. Jerry Abiog, 37, worked for an Atlanta-based consulting firm until he was laid off in January -- only to get called back six weeks later.

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@misc{rehire_2026,
  title = {rehire},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rehire},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}