mercenary
IPA: mˈɝsʌnɛri
noun
- (archaic) One motivated by gain, especially monetary.
- A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.
- (figuratively) One hired to engage in a figurative battle, as a corporate takeover, a lawsuit, or a political campaign.
adjective
- Motivated by private gain.
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Examples of "mercenary" in Sentences
- He is the creator of schlock mercenary.
- The mercenary is one of the warrior class.
- They were mercenary soldiers in the armies.
- The author is selfish and mercenary in his allegiances.
- And Brody as an ex-military turned mercenary is laughable.
- TED KOPPEL: They don't like the term mercenary at Blackwater USA.
- He is the main contact for the mercenary within the South Koreans.
- The only recurring characters are the crew of the mercenary spaceship.
- Where is the description of illegal and mercenary activities of Aegis
- At the start of the game, he is a mercenary working for the New Republic.
- By the term mercenary, I don't mean ruthless and cold killing for a buck.
- It's hard for the ones with some education, which, to be mercenary, is who this book is targeted at.
- Remember, this is Monbiot, a serious analyst of anthropogenic global warming, not Bjorn Lomborg or a mercenary from the Heartland Institute.
- The connection isn't made explicit, but the time of Carlos, the international mercenary, is over, and that of Bin Laden, the theoretician, is just beginning.
- The generous outreach to Sunnis is widely viewed as a profound betrayal by Bahrain's rulers and feeds Shiite perceptions of second-class status and being under siege from what they call a "mercenary" security force.
- But when a product is found to be dangerous, companies and their lawyers increasingly have been turning to what I call mercenary scientists, researchers who will produce the studies needed to question scientific findings suggesting increased risk.
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