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/hˈaɪərd hɛlp/ Listen

Hired help

noun

Employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively).

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"Hired help" Quotes from Famous Books

... really beginning to despair of Iroquois Annie. She is the only thing I can get in the way of hired help out here, and yet she is hopeless. She is sullen and wasteful, and she has never yet learned to be patient with the children. I try to soften and placate her with the gift of trinkets, for there is enough ...

— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer

... hired help, sis. And the trouble with any other drive master than Latisan is that the opposition crowd can hire away what Latisan wouldn't sell—I'll say that for the boy! It's a matter of principle with ...

— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... seeds.—Ants are numerous, strong, skillful, and in suitable weather are always very busy. Their habits have been investigated, and it has been found that in some respects they are genuine farmers on a small scale. They have their slaves (not hired help); they feed their plant lice, remove them from place to place, and otherwise care for them, because the lice constitute one of the chief sources of their supply of sweet. They build roads and houses, and enjoy society after their fashion. They have use for certain kinds of seeds, ...

— Seed Dispersal • William J. Beal

... permits such staggering wretches as the hotel refuses to accommodate to sleep it off in his barns. And he is the only man in Green Valley who ever seriously hired Hank Lolly and kept him sober twelve hours at a stretch. The other business men make considerable fun of Billy's hired help; the trifling boys he hires, boys that everybody else has tried and sent packing. Billy says nothing though he did explain fully to Grandma ...

— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

Words linked to "Hired help" : employee, kitchen help