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mercenaries
Variant of mercenary
adjective
- working or done for payment only; motivated by a desire for money or other gain; venal; greedy
- designating a soldier serving for pay in a foreign army; hired
noun pl. mercenaries
- a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army
- any person who will do anything for money; hireling
Related Forms:
- mercenarily adverb
- mercenariness noun
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