hireling UK /ˈhaɪ.ə.lɪŋ/US /ˈhaɪɹˌlɪŋ/ noun4 •a paid worker who does whatever the employer orders, even unpleasant jobsIs there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hireling? — 1611 •a person who does a job only for the money and cares nothing about 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 •a horse that people can rentIn the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings. — 1934 •(no longer used) A prostitute. formshirelings