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mercenário — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • mercenary noun A soldier who fights for pay rather than out of loyalty to a country or cause.

Senses

mercenário is used for these senses in English:

  • mercenary Motivated by personal gain.
  • 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.

mercenary — full definition

  1. noun A soldier who fights for pay rather than out of loyalty to a country or cause.
  2. noun Someone motivated chiefly by money or personal profit.
  3. adj Motivated purely by money or personal gain.
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