hired help

1. 1.

   employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)

   Broaderemployee

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Questions about hired help

What does hired help mean?

hired help means "employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)".

Is hired help a common word?

hired help 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.