About The Word Mercenary
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Mercenary
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What's The Definition Of Mercenary?
[n] a person hired to fight for another country than their own
[adj] profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" [adj] marked by materialism Synonyms | Synonyms for Mercenary: commercial | materialistic | mercantile | moneymaking(a) | soldier of fortune | worldly | worldly-minded Related Terms | Find terms related to Mercenary: a hog for | acquisitive | adventurer | all-devouring | assistant | avaricious | avid | bottomless | bought | bribable | chartered | condottiere | corrupt | corruptible | coveting | covetous | devouring | drudge | employed | employee | esurient | free lance | girl Friday | gluttonous | gobbling | grabby | grasping | greedy | grub | grubber | gun | gunman | hack | hired | hired gun | hired hand | hired killer | hired man | hireling | hoggish | insatiable | insatiate | leased | let | limitless | man Friday | miserly | money-hungry | money-mad | myrmidon | omnivorous | on the take | overgreedy | paid | pensioner | piggish | predatory | professional killer | purchasable | quenchless | rapacious | ravening | ravenous | rented | right-hand man | slakeless | slavey | soldier of fortune | sordid | subleased | sublet | swinish | unappeasable | unappeased | unethical | unprincipled | unquenchable | unsated | unsatisfied | unscrupulous | unslakeable | unslaked | venal | voracious | worker See Also | adventurer | venturer Mercenary In Webster's Dictionary \Mer"ce*na*ry\, a. [OE. mercenarie, F. mercenaire, fr.
L. mercenarius, fr. merces wages, reward. See {Mercy}.]
1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling;
venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of
gain; sordid; selfish. --Shak.
For God forbid I should my papers blot With
mercenary lines, with servile pen. --Daniel.
Syn: See {Venal}.
\Mer"ce*na*ry\, n.; pl. {Mercenaries}. One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service. --Milman. |
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