Helper vs Hireling - What's the difference?
helper | hireling | Related terms |
One who helps; an aide.
(Singapore) A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family, or in a market.
(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
Helper is a related term of hireling.
As nouns the difference between helper and hireling
is that helper is one who helps; an aide while hireling is (usually|pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.helper
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(en noun)hireling
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(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;