A mercenary soldier.

a mercenary soldier.

A person who receives payment for his or her services. Chiefly and now only: spec. a soldier paid to serve in a foreign army or other military…

A mercenary foot-soldier, esp. one armed with a lance or pike.

A mercenary soldier. Also in combination suddart-like adj. or adv.

One who serves for hire or wages; a hired servant; a mercenary (soldier). (Now usually somewhat contemptuous: cf. A. 2)

spec. A person who engages in warlike adventures, esp. for financial gain, without any attachment to a particular party; a soldier of fortune, a…

(See quot. 1572) Obsolete. rare.

Historical. One of a class of mercenary soldiers in the German and other continental armies in the 16th and 17th centuries.

One who traffics in war. Contemptuously applied to. a mercenary soldier (obsolete rare).

A mercenary, a hired soldier.

Military. A man temporarily hired as a pretend or dummy soldier in order to supply a deficiency at the muster or on the roll of a company or…

a mercenary.

(see quots. 1802 1810).

A volunteer or freelance soldier. Obsolete.

A member of any of various companies of mercenaries and unaffiliated soldiers active in France during the medieval period. Also in extended use. Cf. f…

A daring villain, a hired soldier or assassin; ‘a man who murders for hire’ (Johnson); a reckless desperado.

A stipendiary soldier, a mercenary. Obsolete.

a member of a free company; = freelance, n. 1.

historical. Esp. in the Middle Ages: a type of military adventurer, typically of knightly rank, who offered his services to states or individuals…

A mounted soldier, mercenary, etc., not belonging to a regular or established military body (cf. freelance, n. 1, rough-rider, n. 3); (also) a…

= freelance, n. 1. rare.

In extended use: a person who purveys or supplies something which is not usually regarded as an object of trade.

= mercenary, n. 2a.