MERCENARY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.

2.
a.

Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen. Daniel.

3.
n.

One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service. Milman.

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