Synonyms of hireling

hireling

noun

ˈhī(-ə)r-liŋ 

as in employee

one who works for another for wages or a salary

demanded to speak to the store's owner and not one of his hirelings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• employee
• worker
• laborer
• assistant
• colleague
• jobholder
• retainer
• associate
• underling
• subordinate
• hand
• flunky
• workingman
• workman
• toiler
• yes-man
• drudge
• cog
• hack
• grub
• jobber
• navvy
• wage earner
• workingwoman
• coworker
• workwoman
• wage slave
• temporary
• temp
• gandy dancer
• wageworker
• nine-to-fiver

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• employer
• boss
• supervisor
• gaffer
• superior

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hireling

To pretend otherwise in the year 2024 is all-but to out oneself as a hireling. — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Feb. 2024

Neither should some assistant DA hireling be allowed to forgo appropriate punishment under state law. — Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020

Not since Carson Palmer has one of Mike Brown’s hirelings had the emperor in such a headlock. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2018

No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 18 July 2017