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What does hireling mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hireling? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence
  2. (pejorative) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself
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All honest men can see the obvious truth that globalization is a terrible thing, and only a capitalist hireling would deny it.
Dominic Grieve, the newly-appointed shadow home secretary, was crestfallen when a corporation hireling mistook him for the Labour MP, Keith Vaz.
Max turns from hireling to hostage, and the movie's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
You're a lowly hireling, and I don't have to do one smidge of what you say!
In ordinary terms, if the shepherd dies defending the sheep they are no better off than with the hireling who ran away.
He was not, however, a hireling of the king of Hungary and Bohemia, but a French general murdered by his own men.

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