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See definition of give a break on Dictionary.com
  • as inhire
  • as inrelieve
  • as inrescue
  • as insave
  • as inspare

synonyms for give a break

  • appoint
  • bring in
  • draft
  • employ
  • engage
  • enlist
  • lease
  • obtain
  • pick
  • promise
  • rent
  • retain
  • select
  • authorize
  • book
  • carry
  • charter
  • delegate
  • empower
  • exploit
  • ink
  • let
  • occupy
  • place
  • pledge
  • procure
  • secure
  • sublease
  • sublet
  • utilize
  • add to payroll
  • bring on board
  • contract for
  • fill a position
  • find help
  • give job to
  • give work
  • make use of
  • put on
  • put to work
  • sign on
  • sign up
  • take on
  • truck with

antonyms for give a break

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  • dismiss
  • fire
  • let go
  • lose
  • refuse
  • reject
  • release
  • shun
  • cancel
  • discharge
  • lay off
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    How to use give a break in a sentence

    Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
    GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
    Bacteria, when present in great numbers, give a uniform cloud which cannot be removed by ordinary filtration.
    A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD
    Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
    THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
    Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
    THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOE
    Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.
    GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
    If you have any thoughts of influencing me or my men to join the regular Confederate army, you may as well give up the idea.
    THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
    It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
    SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
    Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
    THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
    But the Mexicans were not the people to give up their best province so easily.
    BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
    He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.
    THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
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