1. A person hired to fight for another country than their own
   - soldier of fortune

1. Marked by materialism
   - materialistic, worldly-minded 
2. Serving for wages in a foreign army
   "mercenary killers"
   - free-lance, freelance 
3. Profit oriented
   "a mercenary enterprise"
   - mercantile, moneymaking

Derived forms: mercenaries

See also: commercial, paid, secular, temporal, worldly

Type of: adventurer, venturer

Encyclopedia: Mercenary

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