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单词 hireling
释义 hire·ling
\-liŋ, -lēŋ\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
1. : one who is hired; especially : one whose motives and interests in serving another are chiefly gainful
 < was murdered by hirelings in the service of foreign powers — Stoyan Christowe >
2. : one whose motives are venal or mercenary
 < baser hirelings who live by lies on good men's lives — Lord Byron >
3. : a horse for hire
 < went to a neighboring livery stable to look for hirelings — Evelyn Waugh >
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