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hireling

C2 noun
us /ˈhaɪɹˌlɪŋ/

hireling /ˈhaɪ.ə.lɪŋ/ nghĩa là người làm thuê, người được thuê làm việc vặt

Các nghĩa

  1. người làm thuê, người được thuê làm việc vặt

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

    derogatory · usually

    Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?

    When my poor James was in the small-pox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?

  2. kẻ làm thuê, người làm vì tiền

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

    derogatory · usually

    These vain bickerings / Are spawn'd in courts by base intrigues and baser / Hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives.

  3. ngựa cho thuê

    A horse for hire.

    In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.

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