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adj.greedy for money
nounperson who fights, kills for money

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Her portrayal as a battle-hardened mercenary was met with positive reviews, with many lauding her on-screen performance as an inspiration for young women.

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Zambernardi also controlled a team of mercenaries he called Rudos—“tough guys”—from Mexico’s corrupt and violent Federal Judicial Police.

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Saudi Arabia and the UAE have outsourced their fighting in Yemen and Libya to brutal mercenaries of the Darfur civil war.

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Some of these mercenaries were basically employed knights, who lacked fiefs, and thus were paid salaries by their overlords.

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His second-in-command was the marechal, who was responsible for paying the mercenaries, organizing the fighting divisions and playing his supervisory role in regards to the discipline and equipment of the army.

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Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT

If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

But this pious reverence gave place to a more mercenary spirit, and the trade in relics became a traffic of infamy and disgrace.

THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW

It is perhaps something of a surprise to find him a mercenary in seventeenth-century Holland; but the old touch is there.

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The first were large bands of discharged mercenary soldiers who pillaged the country.

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