Synonymer

Uttal

  • Canada:
    • IPA: /ˈhaɪɹˌlɪŋ/
  • kanadensisk engelska:
    • IPA: /ˈhaɪrˌlɪŋ/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (usually, pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence
  2. (usually, pejorative) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself

Exempel

  • 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;

Böjningsformer

Pluralhirelings

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