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Hireling meaning
An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence. | Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself. | A horse for hire.
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Example sentences (4)
But yesterday, using descriptions such as “academic dwarf”, “warped madness”, and “purported governor fit to be called a political hireling” Sang dismissed Joho’s legal threats saying he was only trying to divert attention from the real issue.
No one today would recognise Samuel Johnston’s quip that a pension is “generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country”.
And Steele was himself a hireling of Fusion GPS, the oppo research outfit enlisted and paid by the Clinton campaign and DNC.
In 1912, D. J. Scannell O'Neill wrote in The Fortnightly Review that London "seems to have more than her due share of bishops" and enumerates what he refers to as "these hireling shepherds".