hireling
/hahyuhr-ling/US // ˈhaɪər lɪŋ //UK // (ˈhaɪəlɪŋ) //
雇佣兵,雇工,雇佣军,雇用人员
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n.名词 noun
- 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
- : 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?
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