hire away

hire someone away (from someone or something)

[for one] to get someone to quit working for some other employer and begin working for one. We hired Elaine away from her previous employer, and now she wants to go back. The new bank hired away all the tellers from the old bank.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jung-Sook	jung-sook	Korean
Baldomero	bahl-do-ME-ro	Spanish
ŽEljka	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Cornelia	kawr-NE-lee-ah (German), kor-NE-lyah (Italian), kawr-NAY-lee-ah (Dutch), kər-NEE-lee-ə (English), kər-NEEL-yə (English)	German, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, English, Ancient Roman
MihĂIȚĂ	-	Romanian
Ingrid	ING-rid (Swedish), ING-ree (Norwegian), ING-grit (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German