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Meanings of
hireling
in English
Portuguese
mercenário
Catalan
mercenari
Back to the meaning
A person who works only for money.
pensionary
Portuguese
mercenário
Usage of
hireling
in English
1
The
hireling
went away and returned with a maid and the Child.
2
Abel is notorious throughout Washington as the
hireling
of the lumber interests.
3
The salary you pay me is not the wage of a
hireling
.
4
She was a
hireling
of Satan, to catch the souls of men.
5
He hung up and turned to his
hireling
,
fairly licking his chops.
6
They would employ
hireling
writers, who would have neither justice nor mercy.
7
And yet you call on me, like a
hireling
,
to be silent.
8
A great record, if you will, to commend me to
hireling
service.
9
It is this duty you would calmly hand over to a
hireling
!
10
Penn had passed his life in declaiming against a
hireling
ministry.
11
But you may not call the service of a
hireling
noble.
12
She treated me exactly as if I had been a
hireling
.
13
I was transformed into a mudsill and Northern
hireling
last spring.'
14
You, an Hidalgo, to take up with a base-born
hireling
cut-throat-
15
Are not his days also like the days of an
hireling
?
16
Leather-heart has gone from him to be a rich man's
hireling
.
Other examples for "hireling"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
hireling
hirele
Verb
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
mere hireling
hireling shepherd
allow any hireling
autocratic hireling
become the hireling
More collocations
Translations for
hireling
Portuguese
mercenário
Catalan
mercenari
Hireling
through the time
Hireling
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common