adjective. Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain.

adjective. Hired for service in a foreign army.

noun. One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling.

noun. A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army.

Working or acting for reward; hired; serving only for gain; selling one's services to the highest bidder.

Hence Venal; sordid; actuated only by hope of reward; ready to accept dishonorable gain: as, a mercenary prince or judge; a mercenary disposition.

Pertaining or due to hope of gain or reward; done, given, etc., in return for hire; resulting from sordid motives: as, mercenary services; a mercenary act.

Synonyms Hireling, etc. See venal.

noun. A person who works for pay: especially, one who has no higher motive to work than love of gain.

noun. Specifically, a soldier in foreign service; a professional soldier.

noun. One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.

adjective. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal.

adjective. Moved primarily by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.

adjective. Motivated by private gain.

noun. 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 prime or sole motivation is private gain.

adjective. serving for wages in a foreign army

adjective. profit oriented

adjective. marked by materialism

noun. a person hired to fight for another country than their own

"TED KOPPEL: They don't like the term mercenary at Blackwater USA."

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