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