This is the 13456th most frequent Russian word.
нанимал
"Hired" or "was hiring."
The word 'нанимал' is used here to express the action of hiring in past continuous or habitual sense.
Он нанимал переводчика для работы.
He was hiring a translator for work.
The term 'нанимал' indicates a repeated past action of hiring.
Раньше я нанимал садовника каждую весну.
Previously, I used to hire a gardener every spring.
In this sentence, 'нанимал' conveys the idea of a temporary hire that happened in the past.