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hireless

hireless adjective: without recompense, payment or reward.

Adjective

hireless (not comparable)

  1. Without recompense, payment or reward.
    • "To cry the state of the political atmosphere,"—and so forth, I set off on a tour to the North, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the...1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter X, in Biographia Literaria

Origin of hireless

From hire + -less.

Questions about hireless

What does hireless mean?
Hireless means without recompense, payment or reward.
What part of speech is hireless?
Hireless is an adjective.

Words near hireless in the dictionary

  1. hired muscle
  2. hired muscles
  3. hired out
  4. hiree
  5. hirees
  6. hireless
  7. hireling
  8. hirelings
  9. hireman
  10. hiremen
  11. Hiren

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