Hireling

/ˈhaɪɹˌlɪŋ/

Synonyms for "hireling" (51 found)

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Closest matches (11)

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Noun(2 words)
flunkyhired gun
free lancegirl fridaygrubgrubbergungunmanhackhiredhired gunhired handhired killerhired maninferior

Related words (25)

letman fridaymercenarymyrmidonpensionerprofessional killerpuppetpurchasableright hand manright-hand manslaveysoldier of fortunesubletsubordinatetoolvenalworker

Related word relations

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More general

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agenteconomic descriptoremployeeemployment termmotive descriptoroccupational descriptorworker

More specific

9 entries
employeehired gunhired handlackeymercenarypaid workerprofit motiveself interesttemp

Collocations

11 entries
hired handhired servanthireling laborhireling officialshireling soldierslowly hirelingmercenary hirelingmercenary motivepaid employeepaid workerprofit motive

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase; no foreigner shall eat of it. But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat. The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

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No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: and the Star - Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Source: tatoeba (11002089)

Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?

Source: wiktionary

When my poor James was in the small-pox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?

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