Hires and Keep

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Keep is an antonym for hires in use topic.

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Hires is an antonym for keep.

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Parodied in the "My Future Self 'n' Me" episode of South Park, where an organization hires actors to play kids future' selves to keep them from using drugs.

Source: Jacob Marley Warning
In the Wheel of Time series, Rand al'Thor decides he needs to keep up his swordsmanship, so he hires the best swordsmen he can find to duel him with practice swords (bundles of wooden lathes)...six at a time.

Source: Deadly Training Area
In "Jeeves Takes Charge", the story where Bertie hires him, Bertie is faced with a dilemma: Florence won't marry him unless he steals his uncle's memoirs, to keep them from being published, and he's dependent on that uncle for his money.

Source: Unable to Support a Wife

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