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hack
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack) [from the 17th c.]
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  1. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack) [from the 17th c.]
  2. A worker for a political party, usually holding office through patronage and serving devotedly and unquestioningly
  3. (Politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
worker
One who works at a particular occupation or activity:
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  1. One who works at a particular occupation or activity:
  2. A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.
  3. A member of a colony of social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, or termites, usually a sterile or sexually immature female but in termites an individual of either sex, that performs specialized work such as building the nest, collecting and storing food, and feeding other members of the colony.
aide
An aide-de-camp
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  1. An aide-de-camp
  2. An assistant; a helper:
employee
A person who works in the service of another (the employer) subject to a contract for hire, where the employer controls the conditions of work performance. See also agent. A person who works in the service of another (the employer) subject to a contract for hire, where the employer controls the conditions of work performance. See also agent.
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  1. A person who works in the service of another (the employer) subject to a contract for hire, where the employer controls the conditions of work performance. See also agent. A person who works in the service of another (the employer) subject to a contract for hire, where the employer controls the conditions of work performance. See also agent.
jobholder
One who has a regular job.
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  1. One who has a regular job.
  2. A person who has a steady job; specif., a government employee
  3. (US) Someone who is employed in a regular job
worker
A member of the working class.
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  1. A member of the working class.
  2. (Computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
  3. A person, animal, or thing that works; specif., a person who is employed to do physical or mental work for wages, esp. in order to earn a living, as in a trade, industry, business, office, etc. or on a farm, ranch, etc.
hire
(Informal) A person who is hired; employee
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  1. (Informal) A person who is hired; employee
  2. The amount paid to get the services of a person or the use of a thing
  3. A hiring or being hired
hired hand
A person who is employed to perform routine chores and manual labor, especially on a farm or ranch.
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  1. A person who is employed to perform routine chores and manual labor, especially on a farm or ranch.
Find another word for hireling. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hireling, like: hack, worker, aide, employee, laborer, worker, employee, jobholder, worker, hire and hired hand.

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  • There was not one hireling there.

  • no longer deals with idolatry, but with the corruption of society, and particularly of its leaders - the grasping aristocracy whose whole energies are concentrated on devouring the poor and depriving them of their little holdings, the unjust judges and priests who for gain wrest the law in favour of the rich, the hireling and gluttonous prophets who make war against every one "that putteth not into their mouth," but are ever ready with assurances of Yahweh's favour to their patrons, the wealthy and noble sinners that fatten on the flesh of the poor.

  • It was De la Gardie who first made Sweden the obsequious hireling of the foreign power which had the longest purse.

  • A pension he had defined as pay given to a state hireling to betray his country; a pensioner as a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey a master.

  • Another characteristic of the de la Gardie government was its gross corruption, which made Sweden the obsequious hireling of that foreign power which had the longest purse.

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