hireling

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But after her hireling turned protege persuaded Deborah to revamp her act by making it more personal and intimate, the comedy veteran decided she needed to take her new show on the road.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

It pointed to the third verse of Francis Scott Key’s poem, which includes the line: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 25, 2020

Indeed, the oft-overlooked third verse of Key’s original text proclaims, “No refuge could save the hireling & slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016

Dean notes that some Chinese couples see the procedure as strictly a business transaction, viewing the surrogate mother as a hireling.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 19, 2012

He was not accustomed to being called “honored master” by even his lowliest hireling.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw