Hireling

  • 51Премия BAFTA за лучший дизайн костюмов — вручается Британской академией кино и телевизионных искусств с 1964 года художникам по костюмам, разработавшим дизайн одежды для фильмов, вышедших на экран в год, предшествующий премии. Вплоть до 1968 года награда присуждалась отдельно за чёрно… …

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  • 52Job 7 — 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 3 So am I made to possess months of… …

    The King James version of the Bible

  • 53Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation — Исполнитель Ewan MacColl (Эван МакКолл), Dick Gaughan (Дик Гохан), Steeleye Span, The Dubliners, Luke Kelly (Люк Келли) …

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  • 54hack — I n. hireling a party hack II v. ( to chop ) 1) (d; intr.) to hack at (to hack at a tree) 2) (misc.) they hacked their way through the forest; to hack (a body) to pieces * * * [hæk] to hack (a body) to pieces (misc.) they hacked their way through …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 55employee — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. servant, helper, [hired] hand; clerk, assistant. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. worker, laborer, wage earner, agent, representative, hired hand, staff member, assistant, attendant, apprentice, operator,… …

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  • 56servant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) One who serves another Nouns 1. servant, servitor, domestic, menial, help; retainer, follower, henchman, subject, liegeman; retinue, suite, cortege, staff, entourage, court; majordomo, chamberlain. See… …

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  • 57mercenary — I. a. 1. Hired, purchased, paid, hireling, venal. 2. Sordid, avaricious, covetous, penurious, parsimonious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, mean, selfish, close. 3. Selfish, sordid. II. n. Hireling …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 58mercenary — adj 1. hireling, hired, paid, auxiliary; purchased, bought, venal, Sl. on the take. 2. avaricious, greedy, covetous, eager for gain; acquisitive, grasping, Sl. grabby, rapacious, ravenous, ravening, predatory, predacious; mean, usurious, sordid,… …

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  • 59pensionary — [pen′shə ner΄ē] adj. [ML pensionarius] 1. of or constituting a pension 2. receiving a pension 3. dependent; hireling n. pl. pensionaries 1. a pensioner 2. a hireling …

    English World dictionary

  • 60SLAVERY — BIBLICAL LAW The Hebrew term for slave, eved (pl. avadim), is a direct derivation from the verb ʿbd, to work ; thus, the slave is only a worker or servant. The eved differs from the hired worker (sakhir) in three respects: he receives no wages… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism