Hire
Hire noun - The state of being provided with a paying job.
Sum
Sum noun - A complete amount of something.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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They hire Ann and Sven as tutor's for guns and close-quarters combat; two seperate sub-badassitudes, and not the sum.
Source: Badass Teacher - In Kid Radd, two Moderators are given a large sum of money in order to hire an assassin to kill Radd, as Captain QB can't be directly implicated in illegal activities and needs to use a proxy.
Source: Unwitting Instigator of Doom - When the eponymous character of The Dresden Files asks what it would cost to hire Professional Killer Kincaid as backup for a raid, the answer is "a sum that made the amount in my savings account look very small indeed".
Source: Undisclosed Funds
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