- Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired;
hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. - Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy
of gain; sordid; selfish.
2 . Mercenary
[ n.]
- One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier
hired into foreign service.
Meaning of 'mercenary' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . mercenary
[ s]
Meaning (1): - profit oriented
Example in sentence:
a commercial book;
a mercenary enterprise;
a moneymaking business;
preached a mercantile and militant patriotism
Meaning (2): - serving for wages in a foreign army