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mercenary in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. serving for wages in a foreign army
    "mercenary killers"
    mercenary  free-lance  freelance 
  2. marked by materialism
    materialistic  mercenary  worldly-minded 
  3. profit oriented
    "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
    mercantile  mercenary  moneymaking 
noun
  1. a person hired to fight for another country than their own
    mercenary  soldier of fortune 
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