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mercenary
(encz) | mercenary,žoldák n: Zdeněk Brož |
mercenary
(encz) | mercenary,žoldnéř n: Robert Svoboda |
Mercenary
(gcide) | 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.
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2. Hence: Moved primarily by considerations of pay or profit;
greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. --Shak.
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For God forbid I should my papers blot
With mercenary lines, with servile pen. --Daniel.
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Syn: See Venal.
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Mercenary
(gcide) | Mercenary \Mer"ce*na*ry\, n.; pl. Mercenaries.
One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired
into foreign service. --Milman.
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mercenary
(wn) | mercenary
adj 1: marked by materialism [syn: materialistic, mercenary,
worldly-minded]
2: serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"
[syn: mercenary(a), free-lance(a), freelance(a)]
3: profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile
and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary
enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" [syn: mercantile,
mercenary, moneymaking(a)]
n 1: a person hired to fight for another country than their own
[syn: mercenary, soldier of fortune] |
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unmercenary
(encz) | unmercenary, adj: |
Mercenary
(gcide) | 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.
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2. Hence: Moved primarily by considerations of pay or profit;
greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. --Shak.
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For God forbid I should my papers blot
With mercenary lines, with servile pen. --Daniel.
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Syn: See Venal.
[1913 Webster]Mercenary \Mer"ce*na*ry\, n.; pl. Mercenaries.
One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired
into foreign service. --Milman.
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Unmercenary
(gcide) | Unmercenary \Unmercenary\
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unmercenary
(wn) | unmercenary
adj 1: not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains |
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