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ˈhaɪər lɪŋhireling

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  1. hirelingnoun

    Synonyms:
    lackey, mercenary, flunky

  2. hirelingnoun

    an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence

    Synonyms:
    lackey, flunky, mercenary

  3. hirelingnoun

    someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself

    Synonyms:
    flunky, lackey, mercenary

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hireling

    Venal (Latin venalis, from venum, sale) signifies ready to sell one's influence, vote, or efforts for money or other consideration; mercenary (Latin mercenarius, from merces, pay, reward) signifies influenced chiefly or only by desire for gain or reward; thus, etymologically, the mercenary can be hired, while the venal are openly or actually for sale; hireling (Anglo-Saxon hyrling, from hyr) signifies serving for hire or pay, or having the spirit or character of one who works or of that which is done directly for hire or pay. Mercenary has especial application to character or disposition; as, a mercenary spirit; mercenary motives — i. e., a spirit or motives to which money is the chief consideration or the moving principle. The hireling, the mercenary, and the venal are alike in making principle, conscience, and honor of less account than gold or sordid considerations; but the mercenary and venal may be simply open to the bargain and sale which the hireling has already consummated; a clergyman may be mercenary in making place and pay of undue importance while not venal enough to forsake his own communion for another for any reward that could be offered him. The mercenary may retain much show of independence; hireling service sacrifices self-respect as well as principle; a public officer who makes his office tributary to private speculation in which he is interested is mercenary; if he receives a stipulated recompense for administering his office at the behest of some leader, faction, corporation, or the like, he is both hireling and venal; if he gives essential advantages for pay, without subjecting himself to any direct domination, his course is venal, but not hireling. Compare PAY; VENIAL.

    Synonyms:
    mercenary, purchasable, salable, venal

    Antonyms:
    disinterested, generous, honest, honorable, incorruptible, patriotic, public-spirited, unpurchasable

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hireling, pensionarynoun

    a person who works only for money

    Synonyms:
    pensioner, pensionary

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  1. hirelingnoun

    Synonyms:
    mercenary, hired soldier

  2. hirelingnoun

    Synonyms:
    hired servant

  3. hirelingadjective

    Synonyms:
    mercenary, venal

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hirelingadjective

    Synonyms:
    mercenary, venal

  2. hirelingnoun

    Synonyms:
    mercenary

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