[ UK /mˈɜːsənəɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈmɝsəˌnɛɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. profit oriented
    a mercenary enterprise
    a moneymaking business
    preached a mercantile and militant patriotism
    a commercial book
  2. serving for wages in a foreign army
    mercenary killers
  3. marked by materialism
NOUN
  1. a person hired to fight for another country than their own
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How To Use mercenary In A Sentence

  • He is a South African mercenary and one of my best friends. Times, Sunday Times
  • JOHANNESBURG - South African police said they were searching for an alleged British mercenary freed on bail after being charged with the murders of two black men near Johannesburg. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man. 
  • The generous outreach to Sunnis is widely viewed as a profound betrayal by Bahrain's rulers and feeds Shiite perceptions of second-class status and being under siege from what they call a "mercenary" security force. The Seattle Times
  • Friendship¾Mercenary Marriages¾The De ceiver deceived ¾ How to rule a Wife. Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
  • Because, Tremain thought, I'm a mercenary thug who used the word amoral? A Maiden's Grave
  • He was a mercenary, a criminal, an international careerist. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
  • The player is always a soldier, a mercenary on the player's base.
  • A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft. Filmstalker: The Planet trailer online - Scottish Sci-Fi
  • At a more mercenary level, poor communication skills have been shown to be a predictor of medicolegal vulnerability and also of burnout. 2,3 The Values and Ethics of Euthanasia : Law is Cool
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