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mercenary as in: a mercenary soldier
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He enlisted as a mercenary.
mercenary = a person hired to fight for a country other than their own
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Maybe passersby would think he was a member of the French Foreign Legion or some heroic mercenary. (source)mercenary = someone hired to fight
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He even considered working as a mercenary bombardier in an attempted coup in a small Caribbean country, and was still thinking it over when the coup was called off. (source)mercenary = a person hired to fight for a country other than their own
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On either side of him stood two armed security guys, some of the mortal mercenaries I'd seen in D.C. (source)mercenaries = people hired to fight for a country other than their own
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The armies of the French have thus become mixed, partly mercenary and partly national, (source)mercenary = foreigners hired to fight
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He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to... (source)Mercenaries = people hired to fight for a country other than their own
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Besides, Day wasn't a mercenary in any of his past crimes.† (source)
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Maybe that's what the Silencers are: human mercenaries.† (source)
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She could have stepped in front of a truck, drowned in a puddle, been seized by a mercenary with foulness on his mind.† (source)
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Shots of a boondocks war in some arid mountain range across the ocean, with close-ups of dead mercenaries, male and female; a bunch of aid workers getting mauled by the starving in one of those dusty famines far away; a row of heads on poles that was in the ex-Argentine, said the CorpSeCorps, though they didn't say whose heads they were or how they'd got onto the poles.† (source)
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Mercenary marriage, if ever I saw one.† (source)
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But we are refugees and mercenaries and guest workers; you see us sleeping in airport lounges; you watch us unwrapping the last of our native foods, unrolling our prayer rugs, reading our holy books, taking out for the hundredth time an aerogram promising a job or space to sleep, a newspaper in our language, a photo of happier times, a passport, a visa, a laissez-passer.† (source)
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Soon my shirt would be soaked and Mautz, a true psychological mercenary, would have me.† (source)
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The three mercenaries looked ready to boil someone alive, and then there were the two shackled murderers.† (source)
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mercenary as in: a mercenary attitude
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She has mercenary motives.
mercenary = money-oriented
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I am the most mercenary little wretch that ever lived in the world.† (source)
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...her literary dreams were as yet untainted by mercenary considerations.† (source)
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Who can say she has a mercenary motive in marrying him?† (source)
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Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive?† (source)
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But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. (source)mercenary = made due to considerations of wealth
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Sick of ambitious and mercenary connexions, prizing more and more the sterling good of principle and temper, and chiefly anxious to bind by the strongest securities all that remained to him of domestic felicity, he had pondered with genuine satisfaction on the more than possibility of the two young friends finding their natural consolation in each other for all that had occurred of disappointment to either; and the joyful consent which met Edmund's application, the high sense of having… (source)mercenary = concerned with money
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I figure to myself that the task of attending on your sickbed has devolved on some mercenary old nurse, who could never guess your wishes nor minister to them with the care and affection of your poor cousin. (source)mercenary = working for and concerned with money
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I hate to be so mercenary, but the price of flour has gone up too. (source)mercenary = money-oriented
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She is a cold-hearted, vain woman, who has married entirely from convenience, and though evidently unhappy in her marriage, places her disappointment not to faults of judgment, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being, after all, less affluent than many of her acquaintance, especially than her sister, Lady Stornaway, and is the determined supporter of everything mercenary and ambitious, (source)mercenary = concerned with wealth
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She is a cold-hearted, vain woman, who has married entirely from convenience, and though evidently unhappy in her marriage, places her disappointment not to faults of judgment, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being, after all, less affluent than many of her acquaintance, especially than her sister, Lady Stornaway, and is the determined supporter of everything mercenary and ambitious, provided it be only mercenary and ambitious enough. (source)
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My mind was never yet more mercenary. (source)mercenary = concerned with money
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