Definitions for hirelings

hirelings hire·ling

Spelling: [hahyuh r-ling]
IPA: /ˈhaɪər lɪŋ/

Hirelings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 304 anagrams from letters in hirelings (eghiilnrs).

Definitions for hirelings

noun

  1. a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.

adjective

  1. serving for pay only.
  2. venal; mercenary.

Origin of hirelings

before 1000; late Middle English hirlyng, Old English hȳrling. See hire, -ling1

Examples for hirelings

And it was only last night that he had seen Goritz's fellow assassin and hireling.

Wouldn't I be a hireling too if—if I had anything to do with it?

O remarkable shepherd of the flock, and assuredly no hireling!

His brothers were the leaders of Rienzi's hireling army—that army were his creatures.

The hireling went away and returned with a maid and the Child.

I was hireling to a rich farmer, and drove his plough—four oxen there were.

Everything could not be trusted to one man, and that man a hireling.

Your own country, and your country's cause, above every other; all else is the hireling's part.

Some hireling, some enemy of the shepherd, drove it far away from the fold.

Gotschalk, the hireling and not a pastor, and those who were with him were driven off.

Word Value for hirelings
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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