A hired man, hired servant; retainer.
| 单词 | θ170853 |
| 释义 | society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > hireling (16) hiremanc975 A hired man, hired servant; retainer. hirelingc1000 One who serves for hire or wages; a hired servant; a mercenary (soldier). (Now usually somewhat contemptuous: cf. A. 2) leȝhemannc1175 Hire. Also in combination leȝhemann n. (= Old Norse leigumaðr), a hireling. allowes1348 A hired hand, a hireling. merchantc1384 A hired hand, a hireling. Cf. mercenary, n. 1. Obsolete. mercenaryc1387 A person who works merely for money or other material reward; a hireling. In later use (probably influenced also by sense A. 2): a person whose… hiring manc1425 a man to be hired. pensioner1472 A person receiving regular payment or allowance from another, a dependent; a person in the pay of another, a hireling; (originally) spec. a hired… wageling?1545 A hireling. pensionary1548 = pensioner, n. 2a. Now rare. hired woman1639 hired man, hired woman, hired girl, hired people: applied to free men or women engaged as servants (the latter word being formerly used to… help1645 A person, or company of persons, whose office it is to render help. A person employed to give assistance in household or other manual work; in U.S.… engagee1808 One who is engaged or hired for service. Subcategories:— position of (1) — woman (1) — man hired by year (1) |
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