Learn more about the word "hireling" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary dictionary.
Among other assertions (argued soberly, and at immense length), Johnston alleged that Wordsworth was a founder member of the British secret service, a government informer or long-time, hireling snitch.
A public-sector pension (defined in Dr Johnson's dictionary as "pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country") is generally generous, and former leaders can expect to be in demand from publishers and on the lecture circuit.
Although in his Dictionary Johnson had added to his definition of "pension," "In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country," he believed that he could accept his with a clear conscience.
Meanwhile, Blomkvist gets his own research hireling in the extraordinary form of Lisbeth Salander, a computer whizz with zero social skills but an incandescent sense of purpose.
Consider, for instance, the wide variety of agent suffixes in the nouns actor, artisan, dotard, engineer, financier, hireling, magistrate, merchant, scientist, secretary, songster, student, and worker.
There is Don Ciro (Gianfelice Imparato), whose name hints at potency, but who is, in fact, a frightened hireling in a cheap blouson, distributing cash to those families who exist on the say-so of the Camorra.
At some point, Storino — who is now a member of the executive board of Faith Church — told him that he couldn't go on running the church as a hireling.
They were pioneers; this was pre-Agency for International Development, pre-Peace Corps, and my father, then a young United States government foreign service hireling sent as an agricultural advisor to Haiti, was just starting out a career in what would become known, in American government circles, as "foreign aid".
(Saratoga 8/17/08 anyone? Anyone?) There are lots of sites, of course, where you can still celebrate Bob's birthday illegally, but as the hireling of an institution that is somewhat touchy about "intellectual property," whatever that is, I can't properly tell you how to find them.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
