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mercenary


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mercenary  \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}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mercenary  \Mer"ce*na*ry\,  n.;  pl  {Mercenaries}. 
  One  who  is  hired;  a  hireling;  especially,  a  soldier  hired 
  into  foreign  service.  --Milman. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mercenary 
  adj  1:  marked  by  materialism  [syn:  {materialistic},  {worldly-minded}] 
  2:  used  of  soldiers  hired  by  a  foreign  army  [syn:  {mercenary(a)}, 
  {freelance(a)}] 
  3:  profit  oriented;  "a  commercial  book";  "preached  a  mercantile 
  and  militant  patriotism"-  John  Buchan;  "a  mercenary 
  enterprise";  "a  moneymaking  business"  [syn:  {mercantile}, 
  {moneymaking(a)}] 
  n  :  a  person  hired  to  fight  for  another  country  than  their  own 
  [syn:  {soldier  of  fortune}] 




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