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noun a person hired to fight for another country than their own
adjective marked by materialism
adjective serving for wages in a foreign army
originFrom Middle English mercenarye (“someone paid to work, hireling”), from Latin mercēnārius (“hired for money”), from mercēs (“reward, wages, price”).
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