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What does hireling mean?

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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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But perpetual dissimulation is painful, and he that is all fortune and no nature is an exquisite hireling.
He was not, however, a hireling of the king of Hungary and Bohemia, but a French general murdered by his own men.
Dominic Grieve, the newly-appointed shadow home secretary, was crestfallen when a corporation hireling mistook him for the Labour MP, Keith Vaz.
They cowered in the corridors of Parliament House when a hireling of John Wren whispered what might happen to them if they did not toe the line.
I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, rather than to be lord over the dead that have perished.
All honest men can see the obvious truth that globalization is a terrible thing, and only a capitalist hireling would deny it.

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