Hireling
['haɪəlɪŋ] or ['haɪɚlɪŋ]
Definition
(n.) One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
(a.) Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.
Checker: Micawber
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Mercenary, hired soldier.[2]. Hired servant.
a. Mercenary, venal.
Inputed by Katherine
Examples
- There was, in fact, no very hard duty to perform; but a hireling might have found it hard. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I did not like to put my hand into a hireling's, but it is pleasant to feel it circled by Jane's little fingers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then hirelings will help to make up our population? Plato. The Republic.
Typed by Cedric