Attendant vs Hireling - What's the difference?
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One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
Going with; associated; concomitant.
* Sir Walter Scott
(legal) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
(usually, pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence
* 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
(usually, pejorative) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
As nouns the difference between attendant and hireling
is that attendant is one who attends; one who works with or watches something while hireling is an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.As an adjective attendant
is going with; associated; concomitant.attendant
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Alternative forms
* attendaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
Adjective
(en adjective)- They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
- The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
- the widow attendant to the heir
- (Cowell)
See also
* part and parcel ----hireling
English
Noun
(en noun)- When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?
- ... it may be truly affirmed that no kind of men love business for itself but those that are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as a hireling that loves the work for the wages;