Adjective mercenary has 3 senses
- materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded - marked by materialism
Antonym: unworldly (indirect, via worldly)
- mercenary, freelance - used of soldiers hired by a foreign army
Antonym: unpaid (indirect, via paid)
- mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking - profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
Antonym: noncommercial (indirect, via commercial)
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Noun mercenary has 1 sense
- mercenary, soldier of fortune - a person hired to fight for another country than their own
--1 is a kind of adventurer, venturer
--1 has particulars: ninja
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