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hireling

[hahyuhr-ling] / ˈhaɪər lɪŋ /
NOUN
hack
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The startup money came from John Heyman, 43, a self-described "inactive Jew," who has produced more than 40 feature films, including The Go-Between and The Hireling.

From Time Magazine Archive

It can be quite a tiring business "reading" a full-scale Pre-Raphaelite allegory, like Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd, 1851-52.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Blue Blazer was on his way. $13,000-a-Year Hireling The way has not been easy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hireling troops, soldiers serving for pay: they were not Ultonians and did not belong to the Red Branch.

From A Reading Book in Irish History by Joyce, P. W.

Give ear, O auspicious King, to The Tale of the Hireling and the Girl.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir




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