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HIRED HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hired hand mean? 

HIRED HAND (noun)
  The noun HIRED HAND has 1 sense:

1. a hired laborer on a farm or ranchplay

  Familiarity information: HIRED HAND used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIRED HAND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A hired laborer on a farm or ranch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hand; hired hand; hired man

Context example:

a ranch hand

Hypernyms ("hired hand" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hired hand"):

farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand (a hired hand on a farm)

drover; herder; herdsman (someone who drives a herd)

ranch hand (a hired hand on a ranch)

groom; hostler; ostler; stableboy; stableman (someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses)


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