hireling
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Is hireling a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.Examples: "Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?"; "When my poor James was in the small-pox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?"derogatoryusually
2. (usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.Examples: "[…]it may bee truely affirmed, that no kinde of men loue buſineſſe for it ſelfe, but thoſe that are learned; for other perſons loue it for profite; as an hireling that loues the worke for the wages;"; "These vain bickerings / Are spawn'd in courts by base intrigues and baser / Hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives."derogatoryusually
3. (obsolete) A prostitute.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary