0
Nataloa09 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

hire

A short question. Can a parking lot be hired?

Thank you.
  

Top answer

No

— Clive

  • No
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

6 Answers
0
Here in the UK we don't use the term "parking lot" (well, hardly), so I may be wrong, but suppose you paid for the use of a whole parking lot for a day in order to hold an event, could you not say that you hired it, as you would hire a hall for example?
0
0
For a parking lot or a hall, I'd say 'rent'.

Generally speaking, I associate 'hire' with hiring a person. This may be more a feature of N. American English.

Clive
0
0
I agree that it is not commmon. Although I cannot explain to myself why you can hire a car but cannot hire a parking lot.
0
0
In N. America, the phrase is usually 'rent a car'.
0

Related Questions