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as in: a mercenary soldier Define
a person hired to fight for a country other than their own
- …in ambush behind the gate;—whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:—whether suborned boys—a numerous band of mercenaries—might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;—it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always…
- He enlisted as a mercenary.
- For centuries, mercenaries were Switzerland’s chief export good.
- It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar’s posting-yard; it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor’s shop, and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb’s boy.
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as in: a mercenary soldier Define
a person hired to fight for a country other than their own
as in: a mercenary attitude
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marked by materialism or a profit orientation
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