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

1. adjective. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
2. adjective. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.
3. noun. One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
4. noun. a person hired to fight for another country than their own
5. adjective. profit oriented- John Buchan

   "a commercial book"

   "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"

   Synonyms: mercantile, moneymaking

6. adjective. serving for wages in a foreign army

   "mercenary killers"

   Synonyms: freelance

7. adjective. marked by materialism

   Synonyms: materialistic

Synonyms

mercantile, moneymaking, freelance, materialistic

Common word forms

mercenaries, mercenarily

Words from these letters

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