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hireling
/ ˈhaɪəlɪŋ /
noun
- derogatory.a person who works only for money, esp one paid to do something unpleasant
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hireling1
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Example Sentences
And it was only last night that he had seen Goritz's fellow assassin and hireling.
What a difference there is between him who enters on a labor of love and the hireling who works for pay!
She knew by this time that Jotan had nothing to do with her abduction; no hireling of his would dare handle her so roughly.
The Old Baptists had long been declaiming against college-bred preachers and a hireling ministry.
Who ransomed thy sire, my noble steed, from the galling yoke of an hireling?
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