Definition of Hireling

1. Noun. A person who works only for money.

Exact synonyms: Pensionary
Generic synonyms: Employee

Definition of Hireling

1. n. One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.

2. a. Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.

Definition of Hireling

1. Noun. (context: usually pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence ¹

2. Noun. (context: usually pejorative) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hireling

1. one that works for money only [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hireling

hire car
hire out
hire purchase
hire purchases
hireable
hireage
hireages
hired
hired gun
hired hand
hired help
hired man
hiree
hirees
hireless
hireling (current term)
hirelings
hirer
hirers
hires
hiring
hiring freeze
hiring hall
hirings
hirling
hirlings
hirn
hirola
hirple
hirpled

Literary usage of Hireling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Select Translations from Old English Prose by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1908)
"1] THE TRUE SHEPHERD AND THE hireling Horn. 1. 238-42 Every bishop and every teacher is placed as a shepherd over God's people, to protect that people ..."

2. The Discipline of the Society of Friends, of Ohio Yearly Meeting: Printed by by Society of Friends Ohio Yearly Meeting (1902)
"PRIESTS' WAGES, OR hireling MINISTRY. Let us keep in remembrance this fundamental principle of our profession, that it is under the immediate teaching and ..."

3. Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and ...by William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1829)
"Now, without supposing it possible, that the hireling will, in any case, contrive to get rid of her own child, every man who employs such hireling, ..."

4. Memoir of Roger Williams: The Founder of the State of Rhode-Island by James Davis Knowles (1834)
"hireling Ministry none of Christ's—the ministry—controversy with George Fox—other writings—character as a writer—his general character. IN the same year, ..."

5. Cicero: A Sketch of His Life and Works by Hannis Taylor, Mary Lillie Taylor Hunt (1916)
"In separating the hireling from the master he said: All these things, O judges, I surely know are done without the knowledge of L. Sulla, and no wonder, ..."

6. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
""Hire" as a noun is now chiefly archaic. hireling, n. mercenary (now spec.); spec. myrmidon. hiss, n. Spec, fizz, fizzle, siss (dial. ..."

7. The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr] [al-Marghīnānī, Charles Hamilton (1870)
"A common hireling, therefore, is responsible for any thing which may be destroyed in the cour~'- of his work ; excepting, however, where -i MAX is destroyed ..."

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