Definisjon av mercenary på Engelsk

WordNet

Noun
mercenary - a person hired to fight for another country than their own
		soldier of fortune
		adventurer, venturer a person who enjoys taking risks
Adjective
mercenary - serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"
		free-lance, freelance
		paid marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check"
mercenary - profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
		mercantile, moneymaking
		commercial connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises; "commercial trucker"; "commercial TV"; "commercial diamonds"
mercenary - marked by materialism
		materialistic, worldly-minded
		worldly, secular, temporal characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

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Substantiv
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 prime or sole motivation is private gain.
Adjektiv
mercenary - Motivated by private gain.

A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party" (Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention of August 1949). A non-conscript professional member of a regular army is not considered to be a mercenary although he gets monetary reward from his service. As a result of the assumption that a mercenary is essentially motivated by money, the term "mercenary" usually carries negative connotations, though that can be a compliment in some contexts.