different between hireling vs vendible

English

Etymology

From Middle English hirlyng, from Old English h?rling (“hireling, employee”), from Proto-West Germanic *h??ijuling. Cognate with West Frisian hierling, Dutch huurling (“hireling, mercenary”), German Low German Hüürling,German Heuerling.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha?.?.l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ha???l??/

Noun

hireling (plural hirelings)

1. (usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
   • 1611, King James Version, Job 7:1:

     Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

   • 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:

     When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?

2. (usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
   • 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

     ... it may be truly affirmed that no kind of men love business for itself but those that are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as a hireling that loves the work for the wages;

   • 1821, Lord Byron, Sardanapalus, Act II, sc. 1:

     These vain bickerings

     Are spawn'd in courts by base intrigues and baser

     Hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives.

3. A horse for hire.
   • 1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapter 3, Section 5:

     In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.

4. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Synonyms

• flunky
• lackey
• mercenary

Translations

See also

• underling

English

Alternative forms

• vendable

Etymology

From Latin vendibilis, from vendere (“to sell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?nd?b(?)l/

Adjective

vendible (comparative more vendible, superlative most vendible)

1. Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

     the regulating of prices of things vendible

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!

Usage notes

• Vendible indicates that something can be sold, whereas marketable signifies that it is proper or fit to be sold, according to regulations and customs.

Translations

Noun

vendible (plural vendibles)

1. Anything that can be bought and sold.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vendibilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v?n?di.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?n?di.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ven?di.ble/

Adjective

vendible (masculine and feminine plural vendibles)

1. saleable, sellable

   Antonym: invendible

Derived terms

• invendible
• vendibilitat

Related terms

• vendre

Further reading

• “vendible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vendible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vendible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vendible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Alternative forms

• vendíbel

Etymology

From Latin vendibilis.

Adjective

vendible m or f (plural vendibles)

1. saleable, sellable

   Antonym: invendible

Related terms

• vender

Further reading

• “vendible” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vendibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ben?dible/, [b?n??d?i.??le]

Adjective

vendible (plural vendibles)

1. saleable, sellable

   Antonym: invendible

Related terms

• vender

Further reading

• “vendible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.