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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, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise...
- The Mercenary may refer to: The Mercenary (film), a 1968 film directed by Sergio Corbucci The Mercenary, a 2019 American film starring Dominique Vandenberg...
- 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 War, also known as the Truceless War, was a mutiny by troops that were emplo**** by Carthage at the end of the First Punic War (264–241 BC)...
- Killzone: Mercenary is a first-person shooter video game developed by Guerrilla Cambridge and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation...
- Mercenary is a novel by Piers Anthony published in 1984. Mercenary is a novel in which Hope Hubris joins the Jovian Navy and becomes part of their task...
- 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...
- Mercenary III is the third and final video game in the Mercenary series. It was written by Paul Woakes for the Atari ST and Amiga and published by Novagen...
- Mercenary for Justice is a 2006 action thriller film directed and shot by Don E. FauntLeRoy. It stars Steven Seagal, Luke Goss, Jacqueline Lord and Roger...
- This is a list of mercenaries. It includes foreign volunteers, private military contractors, and other "soldiers of fortune". Andrade, Tonio. (2016) The...