hyreling

Noun

hireling (plural hirelings)

1. (derogatory, usually) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
   • Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:1, column 2
2. (derogatory, usually) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
   • […]it may bee truely affirmed, that no kinde of men loue buſineſſe for it ſelfe, but thoſe that are learned; for other perſons loue it for profite; as an hireling that loues the worke for the wages;1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for...
3. A horse for hire.
   • In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapter 3, Section 5
4. (obsolete) A prostitute.