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mercenary
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mercenary \Mer"ce*na*ry\, n.; pl. Mercenaries . One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service. --Milman.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mercenary is a person primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics, most often used to refer to a soldier who fights for hire. Mercenary or mercenaries may also refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by materialism [syn: materialistic , worldly-minded ] used of soldiers hired by a foreign army [syn: mercenary(a) , freelance(a) ] profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB hire ▪ Encouraged by this, Viscount Aimar decided to hire mercenaries in Gascony and denounce the peace terms so recently agreed. ▪ The U.N. did once consider hiring mercenaries . ▪ Yes, but Lonrho had hired mercenaries ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. motivate by private gain. n. 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.
Usage examples of mercenary.
Data first met Darryl Adin and his band of mercenaries, who at that time had been operating outside the Federation.
The mercenaries did not participate in the executions and tortures, but they all knew that without them Alured lacked the troops to force so many towns.
Foot formed a column on the left and a skirmish line of three mercenary arquebusier companies was out in front.
Several Harphaxi shot flew over the mercenary arquebusiers to the left of the First Foot and rolled back down into their ranks.
Harphaxi mercenary cavalry made a brief feint toward the left of the Hostigi force, but the arquebusiers let fly, their volley felling two score of horses and emptying a few saddles.
Wetchik, who had his inflammatory vision about Basilica in flames, and then her former husband, Gaballufix, who put tolchoks and then mercenary soldiers on the streets of the city.
Force to unclip the grenade pack Nick had taken off the mercenaries in Pelek Baw, then he snatched the captured over-under out of its scabbard on the grassers harness.
An army sworn to a god bereft of its power was, as far as Itkovian was concerned, no different from any other band of mercenaries: a collection of misfits and a scattering of professional soldiers.
He bethought him that the hour, and the circumstance that most of the mercenaries would be in their beds, accounted for the reinforcement not being greater.
Woodbury Common during their Tenderfoot exercise, claimed to have crawled around their bivvy bags and joked that he was now going to be a mercenary in Bosnia.
Dressed like a captain of the Mercenary Bod, she was hardly in disguise at all.
As he stared at the broken bauble, the big, muscular man began to cry and moan of how the Holy See and its chosen captain, di Bolgia, had ruined him and Munster, driving loyal bonaghts and galloglaiches and even noble FitzGerald kinsmen away from their loving sovran, leaving him and Munster now defenseless except for craven, money-grubbing oversea mercenaries, with no true loyalty of bravery in them not reckoned in grams of gold and ounces of silver.
Innocenza Bordon, daughter of a mercenary soldier from the far-away Venetian countryside, unable to read or write, with her hands scarred with cuts, with no one but herself to care for in the whole world, feels pity for the great Duchess who is descended directly from Adam through the paternal line.
By that time, there were so many bands of mercenaries, and the bosses needed their services so badly, that there was no taking revenge, and no point in it, either.
The wars between bosses quickly became a matter of seeing who could hire the most and the best mercenaries, and the ordinary people were ground down to pay for them.