A company that hires things out to people.
 hire companies usually include some basic insurance in their price
Example sentencesExamples
-  Ascot is our local hat hire company.
 -  His intellectual background stems from the fact that he runs a labour hire firm.
 -  Eventually he realizes he has to get the car back to the hire firm in Barcelona.
 -  A lot of audiovisual hire firms also rent out videoconferencing solutions.
 -  If the contract with the hire company is unenforceable, the claimant cannot recover the notional cost of hiring a vehicle which he has actually had free.
 -  They should ask where the hire company is going to keep the passport.
 -  Major changes to the industry in the past three years are altering the reputation of the private hire companies.
 -  Bradford City Taxis is the first public hire firm in the city to use the system.
 -  The claimant is entitled to recover only the ordinary market rate from an ordinary car hire company.
 -  It's not been established that, if the hirer did know what the hire company was seeking to achieve by that time restriction, the hirer shared the hire company's intention.