mis-hire
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of mishire.
noun
Alternative form of mishire.
verb
Alternative form of mishire.
Example Sentences
- "We have estimated that the dollar cost of a mis-hire of a secretary in our firm is more than $17,000."
- "If it's been more than six months since the mis-hire, there's apt to be a repeated recruiter cost."
- "The cost to you and the organization of churning through a mis-hire is very high; so too is the cost to the person who is hired and then let go."
- "If a new employee quickly becomes an obvious mis-hire, that person should be let go while keeping to the letter of the laws on hiring and firing."
- "Even a handful of mis-hires or dishonest employees can create financial disaster through theft, high turnover or Workers' Compensation fraud."
- "Another fifth of the salespeople are constantly battling personal problems, such as divorces, legal problems, chemical dependency; some are lazy, and many are simply mis-hires."