Hireling Synonyms

hīrlĭng
One who is employed by another
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. worker
  2. employee
  3. hack
  4. jobholder
  5. grub
  6. pensionary
  7. mercenary
  8. hire
  9. minion
  10. aide
  11. hired hand
  12. slave
  13. thug

Words Related to Hireling

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Hireling Sentence Examples

  • There was not one hireling there.

  • The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

  • Like the false shepherd, the hireling has self-interest.

  • 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.

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