hiring hall

1. 1.

   a union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation

   Broaderplacement office

Questions about hiring hall

What does hiring hall mean?

hiring hall means "a union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation".

Is hiring hall a common word?

hiring hall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.