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Definitions of hireling - OneLook

We found 26 dictionaries that include the word hireling:

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  1. hireling: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. hireling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. hireling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. hireling: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. hireling: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. Hireling, hireling: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. hireling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. hireling: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. hireling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. hireling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. hireling: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Hireling, hireling: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. hireling: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. The Hireling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Hireling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. hireling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. hireling: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. Hireling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. hireling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. hireling: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. hireling: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. hireling: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. hireling: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. hireling: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hireling: Easton Bible [home, info]

(Note: See hirelings as well.)
noun:  (usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
noun:  (usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
noun:  A horse for hire.
noun:  (obsolete) A prostitute.pensionary, servant, brigand, swinish, laborer, minion, lordling, flunkey, scoundrel, churl, more...
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