'mercenary' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'mercenary' with 3 example sentences.
- mercenary adjective
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: marked by materialism
: serving for wages in a foreign army
: profit oriented
- mercenary noun
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: a person hired to fight for another country than their own
Bush doesn't want to use mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The mercenaries spied a military aircraft conducting aerial reconnaissance over the area.
He hired mercenaries to kill you.