hired man

1. 1.

   a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

   “the hired hand fixed the railing”

   “a ranch hand”

   Synonymshired handhand

   Broaderlaborer

   Narrowerfarmhandherderranch handstableman

Questions about hired man

What does hired man mean?

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

What is another word for hired man?

Close synonyms include hired hand, hand. 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 man a common word?

hired man is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.