palkkasoturi — meaning in English
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English meaning
- filibuster noun A tactic used in a legislature — typically extended, often irrelevant speeches — to stall a vote or block a decision.
- mercenary noun A soldier who fights for pay rather than out of loyalty to a country or cause.
Senses
palkkasoturi is used for these senses in English:
- filibuster (historical) A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
- mercenary A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.
filibuster — full definition
- noun A tactic used in a legislature — typically extended, often irrelevant speeches — to stall a vote or block a decision.
- verb To use such delaying tactics in a legislative body.
mercenary — full definition
- noun A soldier who fights for pay rather than out of loyalty to a country or cause.
- noun Someone motivated chiefly by money or personal profit.
- adj Motivated purely by money or personal gain.