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

His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

In October, studio hirelings with sound cameras and recording devices descended on suburbs around Los Angeles and smaller southern California towns and asked voters to voice their political preferences. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026

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