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   Mer·ce·nar·y

   /ˈmərsənˌerē/

   

   adjective

   • 1. primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics: "the crime was committed out of mercenary motives" Similar money-orientedgraspinggreedyacquisitiveavariciouscovetousrapaciousbribablevenalmaterialisticinformal:money-grubbingOpposite altruisticphilanthropic

   noun

   • 1. a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army: "he had planned to seize power with the aid of a group of mercenaries"
   • ▪ a person primarily concerned with material reward at the expense of ethics: "the sport's most infamous mercenary"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin mercenarius ‘hireling’, from merces, merced- ‘reward’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. mercenariness noun

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   noun. Much of the fighting was done by mercenaries. Synonyms. hired soldier. paid soldier in a foreign army. soldier fighting for spoils. hireling. Synonyms for mercenary from Random House Roget's College Thesaurus, Revised and Updated Edition © 2000 Random House, Inc. Browse.

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   a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu. type of: adventurer, venturer. a person who enjoys taking risks. adjective. profit oriented. “a mercenary enterprise”. synonyms: mercantile, moneymaking. commercial.

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