Akademik

hireling
noun /ˈhaɪrˌlɪŋ/
a) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence

When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?

b) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself

... it may be truly affirmed that no kind of men love business for itself but those that are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as a hireling that loves the work for the wages;

Syn: flunky, lackey, mercenary

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