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How to pronounce hireling in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pensionary
Type of employee

Examples of hireling

hireling
They wouldn't mind me if I was useless and they wouldn't mind me if I was a hireling.
From the guardian.co.uk
They wouldn't mind me if I was useless, and they wouldn't mind me if I was their hireling.
From the guardian.co.uk
So it is basically just the woman and her doctor, and since he is her hireling, basically just the woman.
From the economist.com
Under the circumstances, what record company hireling is going to be brave enough to tell her to pull her head in?
From the guardian.co.uk
After all, al-Obaidi is a barber, not a cop or a U.S. hireling, and he wasn't aware that he had any enemies.
From the time.com
His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.
From the infowars.com
The SHERIFF is a hireling seen at SHIRE.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
They gathered in England with other Pilgrims and hireling colonizers to stage the onward voyage with the two ships.
From the en.wikipedia.org
His was a hireling army of recruits gathered from work-houses, and by impressment, and drilled in the use of arms on shipboard.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A person who works only for money
  • Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ...
  • The Hireling is a 1973 film directed by Alan Bridges, based on an 1957 novel by LP Hartley, which starred Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles. It tells the story of a chauffeur who falls in love with an aristocratic woman.
  • An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence; someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself
  • (Hirelings) have the follow additional menu options:
  • A labourer employed on hire for a limited time (Job 7:1; Job 14:6; Mar 1:20). His wages were paid as soon as his work was over (Lev 19:13). In the time of our Lord a day's wage was a "penny" (q.v.) i.e., a Roman denarius (Mat 20:1).
  • Someone who only works for the money, no interest in the work.