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wagelings

wagelings is the plural of wageling.

Meaning of wageling

Noun

wageling (plural wagelings)

  1. One who is hired for wages, especially one motivated solely by money; a hireling.
    • It is hardly to be hoped, that in any future Socialism, the wagelings, merely as such, or while penniless, may touch, like Pharoah's bondmen, 80 per cent. of their produce.1883, The Christian socialist - Volumes 1-2, page 170

Questions about wagelings

What is wagelings the plural of?
Wagelings is the plural of wageling.

Words near wagelings in the dictionary

  1. wagedom
  2. wagel
  3. wageless
  4. wagelessness
  5. wageling
  6. wagelings
  7. wagels
  8. wageman
  9. wagemen
  10. wagenboom
  11. wagenbooms

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