Meaning & use
hiring spree
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Meaning
nouncountable
a short period when a company or organization hires many new people quickly.
Grammar: Countable: use a/an or the before it, and it can be plural (hiring sprees).
Patterns
- go on a hiring spree
- a hiring spree at a company
After winning the contract, the firm went on a hiring spree and took on fifty engineers.
Analysts warned that the hiring spree would be hard to sustain if sales slowed.
The startup's hiring spree doubled its staff in just three months.
Word forms
| plural | hiring sprees |
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Common combinations
- go on a hiring spree
- The retailer went on a hiring spree before the holiday season.
- launch a hiring spree
- Management launched a hiring spree to support the new product line.
- a summer hiring spree
- The summer hiring spree brought hundreds of seasonal workers to the resort.
- a hiring spree in tech
- There has been a hiring spree in tech despite the wider slowdown.
Synonyms and how they differ
- recruitment drive
- More formal and neutral; it focuses on the organized effort rather than the fast, almost excessive pace suggested by 'spree'.
- hiring boom
- Similar meaning, but 'boom' stresses economic growth, while 'spree' stresses a short burst of activity that may be impulsive.
Opposites
Commonly confused: hiring spree or shopping spree?
hiring spree vs shopping spree
Both use 'spree', but a shopping spree is about buying things, not employing people.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'hiring spree' most naturally?
Choose one answer.
A hiring spree means hiring many people, so filling a new office fits. Firing, buying equipment, and reducing staff are the opposite or unrelated actions.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “hiring spree”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.