hireling
a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
serving for pay only.
venal; mercenary.
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How to use hireling in a sentence
And it was only last night that he had seen Goritz's fellow assassin and hireling.
The Secret Witness | George GibbsWhat a difference there is between him who enters on a labor of love and the hireling who works for pay!
The Mysteries of Montreal | Charlotte FuhrerShe knew by this time that Jotan had nothing to do with her abduction; no hireling of his would dare handle her so roughly.
Warrior of the Dawn | Howard Carleton BrowneThe Old Baptists had long been declaiming against college-bred preachers and a hireling ministry.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler | Pardee ButlerWho ransomed thy sire, my noble steed, from the galling yoke of an hireling?
The Arab's Pledge | Edward L. Mitford
British Dictionary definitions for hireling
/ (ˈhaɪəlɪŋ) /
derogatory a person who works only for money, esp one paid to do something unpleasant
Origin of hireling
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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