What's the difference between hireling and pensionary?

Hireling


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
  • (a.) Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kurt Stammberger, senior vice president at the firm, suggests Iran’s digital hirelings have used external hosting firms as they “don’t necessarily have access to [the technology] inside of the country to launch attacks”.
  • (2) American invaders have embedded with their hirelings in most parts of the country, for which the Mujahideen have launched counter measures as many infiltrators are awaiting their chance to carry out such an attack behind enemy lines,” a Taliban statement said , according to the Site intelligence group.
  • (3) Yet The Times has portrayed me and my colleagues as hirelings of big tobacco,” he said.
  • (4) March against Orbán in Budapest or Trump in Washington, DC, and you are a hireling of Soros’s cosmopolitan conspiracy.
  • (5) He impersonated what I took him to be – writer, walker, culturally burdened European – so beautifully that I wondered if this was an actor, a hireling.

Pensionary


Definition:

  • (a.) Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.
  • (a.) Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.
  • (n.) One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
  • (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is reported on a 72-year-old pensionary who developed one year ago a disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis on the lower legs after chronic sun exposure during twenty summers.
  • (2) Following totals were investigated: 193 patients of the long-term care institutions, 492 subjects residing in homes for aged, 96 in homes for pensionaries and 105 in homes with day-care.
  • (3) Looking back on the beginning of the efforts for preparing of working pensioners for activity and creative life in the pensionary there is demonstrated the present state of the request of research for social preparing on age in the socialism.
  • (4) We deem it should be useful, to customarily measure out nephritic enzymes as trusted index of tabular damage, in hiring and pensionary control examinations.

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