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hireling

/hahyuhr-ling/US // ˈhaɪər lɪŋ //UK // (ˈhaɪəlɪŋ) //

雇佣兵,雇工,雇佣军,雇用人员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving for pay only.
    • : venal; mercenary.

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Examples

  • And it was only last night that he had seen Goritz's fellow assassin and hireling.

  • What a difference there is between him who enters on a labor of love and the hireling who works for pay!

  • She knew by this time that Jotan had nothing to do with her abduction; no hireling of his would dare handle her so roughly.

  • The Old Baptists had long been declaiming against college-bred preachers and a hireling ministry.

  • Who ransomed thy sire, my noble steed, from the galling yoke of an hireling?