Wikidiffcom vs Hireling - What's the difference?
wikidiffcom | hireling |
(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 a noun hireling is
(usually|pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.wikidiffcom
Not English
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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;