hired hand

Questions about hired hand

What does hired hand mean?

hired hand means "a hired laborer on a farm or ranch".

What is another word for hired hand?

Close synonyms include hand, hired man. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hired hand a common word?

hired hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.