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Type Words
Synonyms free-lance, freelance


mercenary killers.
Type Words
Synonyms soldier of fortune
Type of adventurer, venturer
Has types ninja
Type Words
Synonyms mercantile, moneymaking


a mercenary enterprise.
Type Words
Synonyms materialistic, worldly-minded

Examples of mercenary

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Paying off a celebrity is certainly authentic in a blunt, mercenary sort of way.
From the forbes.com
The mercenary force will be led on the ground by Malian and West African troops.
From the infowars.com
Do we criticize the use of mercenary armies who are mainly from these countries?
From the economist.com
The mercenary raid was a factor in Tshombe's loss of support from Joseph Mobutu.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Guts grows up as a young mercenary until his enrollment in the Band of the Hawk.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Even the mercenary train companies and energy suppliers aren't that unreasonable.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Not sure when it became mercenary but very glad I taught my children differently.
From the guardian.co.uk
As a VC, my interest in the Bitcoin ecosystem is not ideological but mercenary.
From the techcrunch.com
Mann was arrested, along with 67 other men, on suspicion of mercenary activity.
From the metro.co.uk
More examples
  • A person hired to fight for another country than their own
  • Materialistic: marked by materialism
  • Mercenary(a): serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"
  • Mercantile: profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
  • A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation ...
  • Mercenary is an album by the British death metal band Bolt Thrower. It was recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincoln, England, December 1997 to January 1998. The album was produced by Bolt Thrower and Ewan Davis. It was released on Metal Blade Records in 1998.
  • Mercenary is a metal band from Denmark that was formed in 1991. Although they are usually labelled as a melodic death metal band , they use aspects of power metal in their music, as well as thrash metal in their earlier work.
  • Mercenary is the first in a series of computer games, published on a number of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, by Novagen Software. The second and third games were known as Damocles and Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis respectively.
  • The Mercenary (Il mercenario), also known as A Professional Gun, is a 1968 spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The film stars Franco Nero, Jack Palance, Tony Musante and Giovanna Ralli, and features a musical score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai. ...