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mercenary    音标拼音: [m'ɚsən,ɛri]
n. 雇来的人,佣兵
a. 为钱而工作的,被雇的,图利的

雇来的人,佣兵为钱而工作的,被雇的,图利的

mercenary
adj 1: marked by materialism [synonym: {materialistic}, {mercenary},
{worldly-minded}]
2: serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"
[synonym: {mercenary(a)}, {free-lance(a)}, {freelance(a)}]
3: profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile
and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary
enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" [synonym: {mercantile},
{mercenary}, {moneymaking(a)}]
n 1: a person hired to fight for another country than their own
[synonym: {mercenary}, {soldier of fortune}]

Mercenary \Mer"ce*na*ry\, a. [OE. mercenarie, F. mercenaire, fr.
L. mercenarius, fr. merces wages, reward. See {Mercy}.]
1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling;
venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence: Moved primarily by considerations of pay or profit;
greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

For God forbid I should my papers blot
With mercenary lines, with servile pen. --Daniel.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: See {Venal}.
[1913 Webster]


Mercenary \Mer"ce*na*ry\, n.; pl. {Mercenaries}.
One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired
into foreign service. --Milman.
[1913 Webster]

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "mercenary":
a hog for, acquisitive, adventurer, all-devouring, assistant,
avaricious, avid, bottomless, bought, bribable, chartered,
condottiere, corrupt, corruptible, coveting, covetous, devouring,
drudge, employed, employee, esurient, free lance, girl Friday,
gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, grub, grubber, gun,
gunman, hack, hired, hired gun, hired hand, hired killer,
hired man, hireling, hoggish, insatiable, insatiate, leased, let,
limitless, man Friday, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, myrmidon,
omnivorous, on the take, overgreedy, paid, pensioner, piggish,
predatory, professional killer, purchasable, quenchless, rapacious,
ravening, ravenous, rented, right-hand man, slakeless, slavey,
soldier of fortune, sordid, subleased, sublet, swinish,
unappeasable, unappeased, unethical, unprincipled, unquenchable,
unsated, unsatisfied, unscrupulous, unslakeable, unslaked, venal,
voracious, worker


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