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mercenary
 
Adjective mercenary has 3 senses
  1. materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded - marked by materialism
    Antonym: unworldly (indirect, via worldly)
  2. mercenary, freelance - used of soldiers hired by a foreign army
    Antonym: unpaid (indirect, via paid)
  3. mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking - profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
    Antonym: noncommercial (indirect, via commercial)
Noun mercenary has 1 sense
  1. mercenary, soldier of fortune - a person hired to fight for another country than their own
    --1 is a kind of adventurer, venturer
    --1 has particulars: ninja
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