hireling

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhaɪ.ə.lɪŋ/    美 /ˈhaɪɹˌlɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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?
  2. Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself. derogatory,usually
    — […]it may bee truely affirmed, that no kinde of men loue buſineſſe for it ſelfe, but thoſe that are learned; for other perſons loue it for profite; as an hireling that loues the worke for the wages;
  3. A horse for hire.
    — In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.
  4. A prostitute. obsolete

词形变化

hirelings plural

词汇关系

近义词
flunky lackey mercenary
相关词
underling

词源

From Middle English hirlyng, from Old English hȳrling (“hireling, employee”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀijuling. Cognate with West Frisian hierling, Dutch huurling (“hireling, mercenary”), German Low German Hüürling,
German Heuerling. By surface analysis, hire + -ling.
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