Mercenary

What do we mean by mercenary?

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

Hired for service in a foreign army. adjective

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

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

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.

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. noun

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. adjective

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. noun

Serving for wages in a foreign army adjective

Profit oriented adjective

Marked by materialism adjective

A person hired to fight for another country than their own noun

One motivated by gain, especially monetary.

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 primary motivation is private gain.

One hired to engage in a figurative battle, as a corporate takeover, a lawsuit, or a political campaign.

A.k.a: merc. A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army. A person who works only for monetary gain. Urban Dictionary

A person who takes actions for himself and not for others. He chooses to trust himself, have few friends, be self-independent, and prefers not to believe in faith, family, money, society, and popular culture. He highly values honor, merit, integrity, intelligence, and self-righteousness. He is not afraid to take risks, become hypocritical to his own self, make "the ends justify the means", betray his own people and nations, and usually has nothing to lose. Also prefers to associate himself with words like radical, renegade, and revolution. See radical. See renegade. See revolution. Urban Dictionary

The coolest job in the world. Urban Dictionary

Any woman who picks her boyfriends based on how much money they have, or make; in other words a money grubbing slut. Urban Dictionary

One who kills for the money. Urban Dictionary

An awesome band from Denmark. They sound like early Fear Factory on some albums. Urban Dictionary

Otherwise known as a soldier for hire, will now be known as james "snake" gibbs Urban Dictionary

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 by the desire for private gain. The term 'mercenary' is also used to describe the army itself. Urban Dictionary

The mercenary is a professional wrrior, who is often hired as a skilled defender or fighter. Mercenaries go out to the highest bidder, and lack any sense of honor, but they are very skilled at fighting, often relying upon their cache of dirty tricks to defeat an opponent. Mercenaries are not very trustworthy, and often will switch alliances in the midst of a battle. Urban Dictionary

Professional blow shit up-er. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to mercenary:
mercenary, mercery, mercenaria, parcenary, mercenarily, unmercenary, decenary.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word mercenary:
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Words that rhyme with mercenary:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe mercenary:
more, german, less, foreign, mere, former, most, french, american, swiss, greek, british, little, old, hired, white, professional, slavish, irish, young, least, english, belgian, italian, true, scottish, paid, hessian, black, european, spanish, big, ruthless, notorious, armed, dead, albanian, typical, pure, famous, portuguese, desperate, medieval, century, dissatisfied, turkish, hardened, south, philistine, outright, successful, barbarian, gallant, expensive, fellow, bloody, carthaginian, brutal, vile, female, treacherous, huge, thracian, sounds, rude, interested, drunken, trained, unscrupulous, cuban, dutch, wily, eager, vilest, carian, hollow.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective mercenary:
troops, soldiers, army, motives, armies, force, soldier, spirit, forces, service, motive, considerations, bands, views, captain, reasons, marriage, captains, character, cavalry, leader, companies, nature, attitude, purposes, marriages, infantry, interests, soldiery, leaders, units, wretch, aid, band, love, officers, commander, warfare, ends, war, view, disposition, aims, warriors, hands, press, creature, element, adventurers, consideration, pilots, sons, arms, company, regiments, invasion, aspect, guards, trade, crowd, greeks, generals, officer, wretches, commanders, writers, allies, general, conduct, nurses, instincts, trader, legions, knights, servants, art, agents, corps.

Words that sound like mercenary:
mercenary, mercenaries, mercenaria, missionary, mesentery, merchantry, urinary, masonry, manera, miss mary, arseniy, minera, minero, marinero, messenger, menorah, missionaries, messengers, misandry, miscarry, monera, mycenae, merson, mercery, maisonette, mariah carey, mesomorph, montre, mary mary, maisonnette, millionary, massenet, monario, trenary, marionberry.