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Definition of MERCENARY

Mercenary
Mercenary Mer"ce*na*ry, a. [OE. mercenarie, F. mercenaire, fr. L. mercenarius, fr. merces wages, reward. See Mercy.] 1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. 2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. --Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen. --Daniel. Syn: See Venal.
Mercenary
Mercenary Mer"ce*na*ry, n.; pl. Mercenaries. One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service. --Milman.

Meaning of MERCENARY from wikipedia

- A mercenary is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of...
- Look up mercenary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mercenary is an adjective meaning "motivated by private gain". It is also a noun: a mercenary is a...
- The Mercenary may refer to: The Mercenary (film), a 1968 film directed by Sergio Corbucci The Mercenary, a 2019 American film starring Dominique Vandenberg...
- and mercenary. Müller was an officer-candidate in the Wehrmacht in World War II and, after emigrating to Apartheid South Africa, became a mercenary commanding...
- Bellingcat, Meduza, and Echo of Moscow for reporting his links to the mercenary group. In September 2022, he claimed to have founded the group, saying...
- Killzone: Mercenary is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by Guerrilla Cambridge and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation...
- United Nations Mercenary Convention, officially the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, is a 2001...
- Mercenaries in India were fighters, primarily peasants, who came from India and abroad, to fight for local rulers in India in the medieval period. This...
- Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling run and gun video game developed and published by Tribute Games. It was funded by Kickstarter and released for Microsoft...
- This is a list of mercenaries. It includes foreign volunteers, private military contractors, and other "soldiers of fortune". Andrade, Tonio. (2016) The...