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		Definition of hireling in English: hirelingnoun ˈhʌɪəlɪŋˈhaɪ(ə)rlɪŋ derogatory 1A person employed to do menial work.  the poorly paid hirelings in their shabby clothes Example sentencesExamples -  The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
 -  The first sound of an innocent human voice since the murder is stifled when Macbeth's hirelings kill Macduff's little boy.
 -  These cities contain walls, player-owned houses, NPC hirelings, and guild-run shops, all of which can be upgraded over time.
 -  Claims by big business and their political hirelings that the current levels of public and social services are unsustainable are lies.
 -  Then we sign petitions to crowd our ballots with initiatives, in effect telling our hirelings that we can do a better job than they can.
 -  These fascists and hirelings are not rising up, they are stamping back down.
 -  But perpetual dissimulation is painful, and he that is all fortune and no nature is an exquisite hireling.
 -  Now is the time, the hour has struck to rise like one man, in the battle against the invaders and hirelings, killers of our peoples.
 -  For ten years before secession, Northerners were commonly referred to as ‘mongrels and hirelings.’
 -  He left the body where it was; one of his hirelings would clean up the mess, and would also spread the word about the punishment.
 -  The identity of the hirelings is obvious from Jesus' prior encounter with the Pharisees over the man born blind.
 -  They provide a frame-work of ideas, perhaps, maybe even a rough draft, but the writing is a job for hirelings.
 -  The words can be explained as a specific reference to ‘authorities’ and their hirelings, but is that how they will be heard?
 -  We must never see them as mere hirelings, off in a corner of our society.
 -  These corporate hirelings ' worries as to what they'll say when a real masterpiece emerges must trouble their sleep.
 -  You are hirelings and you will do what is reasonable for the time that you work for the company.
 -  But these government hirelings usually reverted to their habits of compulsive criminality and often ended up fighting their personal enemies.
 -  And so Max turns from hireling to hostage, and Collateral's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
 -  You're a lowly hireling, and I don't have to do one smidge of what you say!
 -  Peasants assembled, armed themselves, and prepared to fight off the ruthless hirelings of aristocracy.
 
 - 1.1 A person who works purely for material reward.
 the government's paid hirelings assure us that we're on our way out of recession Example sentencesExamples -  Max turns from hireling to hostage, and the movie's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
 -  Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
 -  It's hardly the sort of thing that engenders team spirit, " mutters one corporation hireling.
 -  All honest men can see the obvious truth that globalization is a terrible thing, and only a capitalist hireling would deny it.
 -  I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, rather than to be lord over the dead that have perished.
 -  He says he is just a hireling.
 -  To such had the policy of the great Irish leader brought the ignorant people who trusted him and his hirelings.
 -  It sounds more like a hireling, who would run at the first sign of a wolf.
 -  As I try on various roles described in this account, I wonder if "hireling" describes me.
 -  In ordinary terms, if the shepherd dies defending the sheep they are no better off than with the hireling who ran away.
 -  Southerners resurrected the image of the " hireling ", often extended to include the idea that Union soldiers were foreign immigrants during the Civil War.
 -  How did Jacob go from a hireling to a rich man?
 -  They cowered in the corridors of Parliament House when a hireling of John Wren whispered what might happen to them if they did not toe the line.
 -  Evans said, "he did not see how hireling, landless tenant slaves could ever get the means to buy land."
 -  Marlowe is "black" in this scenario because he is a poorly paid hireling of a wealthy white woman.
 -  No refuge could save the hireling and slave.
 -  He was not, however, a hireling of the king of Hungary and Bohemia, but a French general murdered by his own men.
 -  Jesus Christ is the "Good Shepherd" Who is more than a hireling for the sheep of God's flock.
 -  Emotionally deprived in early life, hewas an orphan and child hireling, eventually institutionalized at age 31 after attempting to molest a three-year-old girl.
 -  Dominic Grieve, the newly-appointed shadow home secretary, was crestfallen when a corporation hireling mistook him for the Labour MP, Keith Vaz.
 
  
 
 OriginMid 16th century: from hire + -ling, on the pattern of Dutch huurling.    Definition of hireling in US English: hirelingnounˈhī(ə)rliNGˈhaɪ(ə)rlɪŋ derogatory 1A person employed to undertake menial work. 〈主贬〉(尤指临时的)佣人 Example sentencesExamples -  Then we sign petitions to crowd our ballots with initiatives, in effect telling our hirelings that we can do a better job than they can.
 -  The words can be explained as a specific reference to ‘authorities’ and their hirelings, but is that how they will be heard?
 -  He left the body where it was; one of his hirelings would clean up the mess, and would also spread the word about the punishment.
 -  But these government hirelings usually reverted to their habits of compulsive criminality and often ended up fighting their personal enemies.
 -  The identity of the hirelings is obvious from Jesus' prior encounter with the Pharisees over the man born blind.
 -  These cities contain walls, player-owned houses, NPC hirelings, and guild-run shops, all of which can be upgraded over time.
 -  For ten years before secession, Northerners were commonly referred to as ‘mongrels and hirelings.’
 -  You are hirelings and you will do what is reasonable for the time that you work for the company.
 -  Claims by big business and their political hirelings that the current levels of public and social services are unsustainable are lies.
 -  The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
 -  The first sound of an innocent human voice since the murder is stifled when Macbeth's hirelings kill Macduff's little boy.
 -  But perpetual dissimulation is painful, and he that is all fortune and no nature is an exquisite hireling.
 -  These corporate hirelings ' worries as to what they'll say when a real masterpiece emerges must trouble their sleep.
 -  We must never see them as mere hirelings, off in a corner of our society.
 -  These fascists and hirelings are not rising up, they are stamping back down.
 -  You're a lowly hireling, and I don't have to do one smidge of what you say!
 -  And so Max turns from hireling to hostage, and Collateral's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
 -  They provide a frame-work of ideas, perhaps, maybe even a rough draft, but the writing is a job for hirelings.
 -  Now is the time, the hour has struck to rise like one man, in the battle against the invaders and hirelings, killers of our peoples.
 -  Peasants assembled, armed themselves, and prepared to fight off the ruthless hirelings of aristocracy.
 
 - 1.1 A person who works purely for material reward.
 the government's paid hirelings assure us that we're on our way out of recession Example sentencesExamples -  Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
 -  It sounds more like a hireling, who would run at the first sign of a wolf.
 -  Evans said, "he did not see how hireling, landless tenant slaves could ever get the means to buy land."
 -  Marlowe is "black" in this scenario because he is a poorly paid hireling of a wealthy white woman.
 -  Southerners resurrected the image of the " hireling ", often extended to include the idea that Union soldiers were foreign immigrants during the Civil War.
 -  Jesus Christ is the "Good Shepherd" Who is more than a hireling for the sheep of God's flock.
 -  No refuge could save the hireling and slave.
 -  It's hardly the sort of thing that engenders team spirit, " mutters one corporation hireling.
 -  I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, rather than to be lord over the dead that have perished.
 -  He says he is just a hireling.
 -  To such had the policy of the great Irish leader brought the ignorant people who trusted him and his hirelings.
 -  Dominic Grieve, the newly-appointed shadow home secretary, was crestfallen when a corporation hireling mistook him for the Labour MP, Keith Vaz.
 -  Emotionally deprived in early life, hewas an orphan and child hireling, eventually institutionalized at age 31 after attempting to molest a three-year-old girl.
 -  Max turns from hireling to hostage, and the movie's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
 -  In ordinary terms, if the shepherd dies defending the sheep they are no better off than with the hireling who ran away.
 -  They cowered in the corridors of Parliament House when a hireling of John Wren whispered what might happen to them if they did not toe the line.
 -  As I try on various roles described in this account, I wonder if "hireling" describes me.
 -  How did Jacob go from a hireling to a rich man?
 -  He was not, however, a hireling of the king of Hungary and Bohemia, but a French general murdered by his own men.
 -  All honest men can see the obvious truth that globalization is a terrible thing, and only a capitalist hireling would deny it.
 
  
 
 OriginMid 16th century: from hire + -ling, on the pattern of Dutch huurling.     |