HIRELINGS Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

hirelings

noun

plural of hireling

as in employees

one who works for another for wages or a salary demanded to speak to the store's owner and not one of his hirelings

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In Brazil, Statista gathered 900,000 evaluations from employees across a wide range of sectors.

— Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
The arbitration added more than $200 million in claim payments to the health insurance plan for state employees and families.

— Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of employees

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At the same time, many of these tech companies, like Microsoft and IBM, have been providing accessible professional certificate programs to workers across the globe in hopes of closing the skills gap.

— Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images The platform at one point served more than 500,000 workers, also referred to as turkers, according to Amazon.

— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

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