Fee
Fee verb - To provide with a paying job.
Usage example: the townspeople fee country lasses as housemaids, nurses, and cooks
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Nick is a professional thief for hire, with a peculiar specialty: for a flat fee, he steals only objects of negligible apparent value.
Source: Literature / Nick Velvet -
When a crime boss tries to hire Wolfe to stop a blackmailer, Wolfe declares that he'll accept the case only if he's given access to the meat black market as part of his fee.
Source: Black Market - Tachyon: The Fringe allows you to hire wingmen for an up-front fee and a percentage of your mission payouts.
Source: Wingman
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