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hired gun

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He accuses me of being a "hired gun" as if I am an easily bought cypher for right wing propaganda.

Dimon, by contrast, is a hired gun—an employee paid to run a publicly traded company.

Being fired is dehumanizing in any event, but to get the news from a "hired gun" only makes matters worse.

Murray himself was at the wheel and, sitting beside him, was another man equally familiar–it was Dave, his hired gun-man.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hired gun, such as: assassin, butcher, contract killer, executioner, gunman, and hatchet man.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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