Meaning of Hireling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
   derogatory, usually
2. Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
   derogatory, usually
3. A horse for hire.
4. A prostitute.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“[…]it may bee truely affirmed, that no kinde of men loue buſineſſe for it ſelfe, but thoſe that are learned; for other perſons loue it for profite; as an hireling that loues the worke for the wages;”

“These vain bickerings / Are spawn'd in courts by base⟳ intrigues and baser / Hirelings, who live⟳ by lies on good men's lives.”

“In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look⟳ for hirellings.”

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