Hireling vs Menial - What's the difference?

Hireling is a related term of menial.

As nouns the difference between hireling and menial

is that hireling is (usually|pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence while menial is a servant, especially a domestic servant.

As an adjective menial is

of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.

hireling

English

Noun

(en noun)

(usually, pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence

* 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?

(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

... 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;

Synonyms

* flunky * lackey * mercenary

menial

English

(wikipedia menial)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.

Of or relating to unskilled work. (rfex)

servile; low; mean

His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.

Noun

(en noun)

A servant, especially a domestic servant.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2

, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.}}

A person who has a subservient nature.