Dictionary Entry
mercenary
mercenary is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
- 2adjective
Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.
- 3noun
One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
- 4noun
a person hired to fight for another country than their own
- 5adjective
profit oriented- John Buchan
"a commercial book"
"preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"
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- 6adjective
serving for wages in a foreign army
"mercenary killers"
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- 7adjective
marked by materialism
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