Crossword clues for hireling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hireling \Hire"ling\, a.
Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary. ``Hireling
mourners.''
--Dryden.
Hireling \Hire"ling\ (h[imac]r"l[i^]ng), n. [AS. h[=y]reling.
See Hire, n., and -ling.]
One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose
motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a
mercenary. ``Lewd hirelings.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who works for hire," Old English hyrling; see hire + -ling. As an adjective by 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context usually pejorative English) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence 2 (context usually pejorative English) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself
WordNet
n. a person who works only for money [syn: pensionary]
Usage examples of "hireling".
Before him lie Argyll and Baillie with horse and foot, which are to his heathen hirelings as four men to one.
The French commander was Eustace the Monk, a Flemish hireling who had fought first for John and then for Louis.
Their Genoese hirelings fought well at the beginning, but made off towards the end.
Shaoki, then by their hirelings, the heavy lifter unit the Malleus Maulers, was chance, the typical Shaoki strategic stupidity, or the knowledge the Khelat were coming.
I want to get this pocket kingdom into a shape that will please both its people and Brian and then get me and mine back to Italy, first to collect the monies still due us, then to get to work driving the poxy Spaniards and Moors and their hirelings out of my native land.
The Soviet Government had on several former occasions pointed out that the Arctic activities of the hirelings of capitalist warmongers might well be a menace to Peace.
The current duke of Vo Astur is a crude sort of fellow, and the note his hirelings left was very direct.
The Golden Oecumenical Sophotechs are not your friends, nor are their serfs and hirelings.
As they reached the crest of the hill, the wind off the barrens began blowing in earnest, and Zacharias was pleased to imitate the Jinna hirelings by covering his mouth and nose with cloth to keep out the dust.
The girl had just got away with the ruin when Lili and her hireling behind her came bearing down upon them with their three substantial breakfasts on two well-laden trays.
Sponsilier and I widened the breach by denouncing these intruders as the hirelings of a set of ringsters, who had no regard for the rights of any one, and volunteered our services in enforcing quarantine against them the same as others.
The Hibernian's horse being a common hireling, and unaccustomed to stand fire, no sooner saw the flash of Trebasi's pistol, than, starting aside, he happened to plunge into a hole, and was overturned at the very instant when the hussar's piece went off, so that no damage ensued to his rider, who, pitching on his feet, flew with great nimbleness to his adversary, then, laying hold on one leg, dismounted him in a twinkling, and, seizing his throat as he lay, would have soon despatched him without the use of firearms, had he not been prevented by his friend Renaldo, who desired him to desist, observing that his vengeance was already satisfied, as the Count seemed to be in the agonies of death.
We are glad that he has concluded never to revisit our town, altho', incredible as it may appear, the fellow really did contemplate so doing last summer, when, still true to the craven instincts of his black heart, he wrote the hireling knaves of the obscure journal across the street to know what they would charge for 400 small bills, to be done on yellow paper!
That novel of mine, Report on Probability A, the one that didn't cause such a fuss, centred round Hunt's best painting, The Hireling Shepherd.
Rhodes" hirelings, and it was birdshot, and she did miss with one barrel.