наемник — meaning in English

English meaning

• hire verb To employ someone for pay, or to give someone a job.
• hireling noun An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
• mercenary noun A soldier who fights for pay rather than out of loyalty to a country or cause.

Senses

наемник is used for these senses in English:

• hire (countable) A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
• hireling (usually, pejorative) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
• mercenary A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.

hire — full definition

1. verb To employ someone for pay, or to give someone a job.
2. verb To pay to use something temporarily, such as a car or a venue (mainly British usage).
3. noun A person who has recently been employed, especially as part of a group of new employees.
4. noun Payment made for the temporary use of something.

hireling — full definition

1. noun An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
2. noun Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
3. noun A horse for hire.
4. noun A prostitute.

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