On this page you'll find 4 example sentences with Hireling. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as pensionary or employee and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
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.
Synonyms of Hireling
Using Hireling
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: pensionary, employee.
Context around Hireling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hireling
- In this selection, "hireling" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 30.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, political, sang and shepherds stand out and add context to how "hireling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a political hireling sang dismissed and a state hireling for treason. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hireling" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hireling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And Steele was himself a hireling of Fusion GPS, the oppo research outfit enlisted and paid by the Clinton campaign and DNC. (22 words)
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”. (28 words)
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". (34 words)
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. (38 words)
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". (34 words)
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”. (28 words)
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".