HIRED MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hired man mean? 

• HIRED MAN (noun)
  The noun HIRED MAN has 1 sense:

1. a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIRED MAN (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 man" 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 man"):

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)

 Context examples 

There will be chickens, pigs, vegetables, fruit trees, and everything like that; and there will be enough cows to pay for a hired man or two.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)