noun
- A person hired to fight for another country than their own.
- synonyms: soldier of fortune
adjective
- Marked by materialism.
- synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded
- Serving for wages in a foreign army.
- usage: "mercenary killers"
- synonyms: free-lance, freelance
- Profit oriented.
- usage: "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
- synonyms: mercantile, moneymaking
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