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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 ranch
Familiarity information: HIRED HAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hired laborer on a farm or ranch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
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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