Definition of Mercenary

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Mercenary

Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.

Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.

One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.

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Mercenary Quotations

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
Maureen O'Hara

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
Joseph Pulitzer

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.
Tommy Shaw

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
Larry Holmes

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.
Robbie Fowler

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
Alma Gluck

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
David Gill

Mercenary Translations

mercenary in Italian is mercenario
mercenary in Spanish is mercenario
mercenary in Swedish is legosoldat, vinningslysten, vinningslysten

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