Associations to the word «Hireling»

Wiktionary

HIRELING, noun. (usually pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence
HIRELING, noun. (usually pejorative) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself

Dictionary definition

HIRELING, noun. A person who works only for money.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin