hired help
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3.0
- noun
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personal contratado
- The wealthier families are more likely to have hired help as well, who are constantly cleaning and sanitizing their home.
- just the hired help
- need some hired help
And we're just, you know, the best hired help or backdrops.
- And we're just, you know, the best hired help or backdrops.
Examples
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I have been more selective about my hired help.
Blog text (20) -
After breaking her leg, she realized she needed hired help to maintain her apartment.
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Hey, what am I, the hired help?
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Looks like problems with the hired help.
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That was for the benefit of the hired help.
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Wages are low for hired help; fuel wood is free when gathered by family members or employees; and there are no taxes.
Academic text (1993) -
You get kicked out of this rich man's mansion without a word of explanation, treated like the hired help.
Fiction book (2002) -
Friends, relatives, houseguests, Dad's business contacts, hired help—every day and frequently every hour you could count on it that something was happening.
Fiction book (2001) -
They decided to hire some hired help to manage the large garden and take care of the household chores.
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The farmer could no longer manage the vast fields alone, so he sought hired help for the harvest season.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person hired to do work in a home or restaurant
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3.6
A person paid to do manual work on a farm or ranch
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3.2
A man who works on a farm for pay
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2.6
A person paid to clean and cook in a home
A woman who works on a farm or ranch for pay
A person who helps older or disabled people with housework and shopping at home
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person or people employed to do domestic or manual work' is directly derived from combining 'hired' (employed for pay) with 'help' (a helper or domestic worker). This adjective+noun composition follows standard English patterns and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
The phrase hired help comes from the simple picture of people being hired to give help during busy times, like extra workers brought in to pick a farm harvest. So it means 'people you pay to do work', not family or regular staff.