"hired hand" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hired hands [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hired hand (plural hired hands)
  1. A person who is employed to perform routine chores and manual labor, especially on a farm or ranch. Hyponyms: farmhand, farm hand, fieldhand, field hand, hired gun, ranchhand Related terms: hiree, right hand, right-hand man, right-hand woman, gal Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, factotum Coordinate_terms: servant Translations (Translations): កម្មករ (kamma’ kɑɑ) (Khmer)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1896, Stephen Crane, chapter 2, in The Third Violet:",
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          "ref": "1990 July 20, Dirk Johnson, “A Farmer, 70, Saw No Choice; Nor Did the Sentencing Judge”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-11-29:",
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