as in employes
one who works for another for wages or a salary
demanded to speak to the store's owner and not one of his hirelings
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employees
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Store employees would celebrate news of Auburn road wins by throwing ticker tape onto power lines.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Paying the price for the company’s decisions are the 70 full-time park employees and hundreds of seasonal workers, along with the hundreds of thousands of annual guests who will have one less form of affordable entertainment.—
Shannon Pettypiece,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Hirelings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hirelings. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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