Hireless
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hireless is an adjective meaning Without recompense, payment or reward.
Meaning
Without recompense, payment or reward.
Example Sentences
"To cry the state of the political atmosphere,"—and so forth, I set off on a tour to the North, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include meedless, rewardless, salaryless, guerdonless, bountyless, unwaged.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.