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[hahyuhr-ling] 
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hireling
[hahyuhr-ling]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hack |
| Synonyms: | aide, employee, laborer, worker, worker |
| Main Entry: | hack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does easy work for money |
| Synonyms: | drudge*, greasy grind, grind*, hireling, lackey, old pro, plodder, pro*, servant, slave, workhorse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lesser rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, auxiliary, deputy, disciple, follower, hanger-on, hireling, junior, menial, minion, minor, peon, satellite, second banana, subaltern, subject, subordinate, sycophant, underling |
| Antonyms: | superior |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person(s) performing service |
| Synonyms: | apprentice, blue collar, breadwinner, employee, hack*, hand*, hard hat, help, helper, hireling, instrument, laborer, learner, operative, prentice, proletariat, rank and file, toiler, work force, worker, working people |
| Antonyms: | management, manager |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | laborer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worker |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar worker, drudge, farmhand, grunt, hand, hireling, manual worker, migrant worker, peon, unskilled worker, working man/woman, working stiff |
| Main Entry: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who fights, kills for money |
| Synonyms: | hireling, legionnaire, merc, professional soldier, slave, soldier of fortune, warrior |
| Main Entry: | servant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who waits on another |
| Synonyms: | assistant, attendant, cleaning person, dependent, domestic, drudge, help, helper, hireling, live-in, menial, minion, retainer, serf, server, slave |
| Antonyms: | master |
| Main Entry: | tool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who allows himself to be used |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accomplice, agent, auxiliary, chump, creature, dupe, easy mark, figurehead, flunky, go-between, greenhorn, hireling, idiot, intermediary, jackal, lackey, mark*, medium, messenger, minion, patsy, pawn, peon, puppet, stooge, stool pigeon, sucker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | victim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon |
| Synonyms: | babe in woods, butt, casualty, clown, dupe, easy make, easy mark, fatality, fool, gambit, gopher, gudgeon, gull, hireling, hunted, immolation, injured party, innocent, mark, martyr, patsy, pawn, pigeon, prey, pushover, quarry, sacrifice, scapegoat, sitting duck, sitting target, soft touch, stooge, sucker, sufferer, underdog, wretch |
| Antonyms: | criminal, culprit |
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