hireling

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hireling

työntekijä, palkollinen, palkkarenki.

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hireling (englanti > suomi)

  1. renki

  2. palkkarenki

hireling englanniksi

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

  2. 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

  3. When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?
  4. puhekieltä someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself

  5. 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

  6. ... it may be truly affirmed that no kind of men love business for itself but those that are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as a hireling that loves the work for the wages;

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