What's the difference between hired and hoodlum?

Hired


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hire

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
  • (2) A team of 16 guides has been hired and trained to give a running commentary on their every move.
  • (3) China Labor Watch says Samsung is also guilty of bad hiring and working practices.
  • (4) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
  • (5) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
  • (6) As in Utah, the public sector led the way in response to recession, this time in the early 1990s, by hiring new staff on 80% contracts.
  • (7) These folk spend in a day what most people earn in a year on hiring hotel suites and setting up temporary fashion-show rooms in the hysterical hope that their wares will attract the eye of that most important person in town that week: the celebrity stylist.
  • (8) Writers are being hired on new US shows on the basis of their consistently hilarious Twitter accounts (such as Alison Agosti and Bryan Donaldson for Seth Meyers) and where producers Stateside lead, ours are guaranteed to follow.
  • (9) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
  • (10) A year after hiring, many relationships were found, including professional actual situation with job satisfaction (r = 0.26, P less than 0.05) and alienation with job satisfaction (r = -0.33, P less than 0.01).
  • (11) Kenyon then moved to Chelsea, where he and Mendes negotiated Mourinho’s hiring as the new manager, the signings of Carvalho and Ferreira to join him from Porto, and Tiago Mendes, from Benfica.
  • (12) The company hired reputation management lawyers to issue a five-page letter instructing the articles "be amended to reflect the true position".
  • (13) Funding policies as well as chairmen's hiring policies also play a role here.
  • (14) The architects, whose initials stand for Robert Matthew Johnson ­Marshall, said Goodwin had been hired for his international experience.
  • (15) The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn’t even hire a lawyer to defend myself.” He took a lie detector and passed, Allen said, but Mia Farrow declined to do so.
  • (16) I wonder, then, if she could tell us whether she believes that the very low bar of being willing to hire women is an indication of anything other than following anti-discrimination laws.
  • (17) The South Africans were allegedly hired by a company with close ties to Gaddafi, training his presidential guard and handling some of his offshore financial dealings.
  • (18) Twitter has hired the former Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino to be the first woman on its board, after critics rounded on its all-male lineup.
  • (19) Since then, the percentage of female FTSE 100 directors has grown from 12.5% to 17.3%, but the increase has been almost entirely driven by companies hiring more part-time non-executives.
  • (20) In August 2007, just three months after quitting BP, he was hired by New York-based energy investment group Riverstone Holdings to run its European business.

Hoodlum


Definition:

  • (n.) A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Olusola Amore, a police official, appealed for members of the public to come forward "with information on the identity and location of these hoodlums".
  • (2) Manchester City will splurge on the Shakhtar Donetsk defender Fernandinho, Real Madrid hoodlum Pepe , the Málaga playmaker Isco and the Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcântara .
  • (3) Into the Rover's Return swaggered three young hoodlums looking for trouble.
  • (4) Photograph: Kobal In the wild west, English expat John Tunstall (Terence Stamp) runs a finishing school for hoodlums, demanding proper table manners and teaching them to read.
  • (5) "The one above looks like a hoodlum has stabbed him in the head with a twig."
  • (6) Rising star Zheng Kuo's Burned Wings is a reckless study of young north-eastern hoodlums mixing violence, sex and comedy.
  • (7) Drug addicts and hoodlums took advantage … to burn tyres," Majiya told AP.
  • (8) During that time, you couldn't walk to the station in the morning without getting high on the smoke being puffed out all over the place by every Nike-wearing hoodlum.
  • (9) By far the most celebrated gangster of the day, though, was Al Capone, a New York-born hoodlum who controlled much of the Chicago underworld in the mid-1920s.
  • (10) Fearless and filled with righteous conviction, she confronts hoodlums and comforts the bereaved with such an extraordinary mixture of sense and sensitivity that you wonder why she isn't involved in a larger scale undertaking, like running the UN or the world.
  • (11) Juan Abbate, the owner of the family bakery where Mujica worked as a boy, described how he had once been prevented from making a delivery by a gang of teenage pasta-base hoodlums.
  • (12) Having been the target of protesters herself, Redgrave complimented her audience that they “stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behaviour is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression … I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against antisemitism and fascism.” Marlon Brando for The Godfather, 1973 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather collects Marlon Brando’s best actor Oscar.
  • (13) The other is the opportunity these divisions offer the new guy on the Afghan block – the black-flagged hoodlums of Islamic State.
  • (14) This might sound like an everyday scene for a hip city beach, but when I lived in Brazil 20 years ago, people in Rio seemed almost scared to blink lest their bags were snatched from their hands; and the busker's hat would have been nicked by hoodlums, along with his sax.
  • (15) Here we turn to the unfortunate spectacle of Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), chief hoodlum of the English Defence League, serial offender against community cohesion, claiming the high ground because one of Selfridges' assistants recognised him and refused to serve an associate of his .
  • (16) Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum."
  • (17) He has Tunstall assassinated, and the hoodlums band together as the Regulators to seek revenge.

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