hire system

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hire system

  1. The system of buying and selling things via hire purchase.
    • 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company:
      But the poverty of Kingsland is the diseased poverty of bead flowers in the front room and sticky furniture on the hire system.