mercenaryadjective
uk/ˈmɜː.sən.ri/us/ˈmɝː.sən.ri/disapprovinginterested only in the amount of money that you can get from a situation:
He had some mercenary scheme to marry a wealthy widow.
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Greedy
- avarice
- consumerism
- eye
- glutton
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- grasping
- greed
- greedy
- greedy guts
- growth-oriented
- Mammon
- materialism
- materialist
- materialistic
- money-grubbing
- rapacious
- sb's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomach idiom
- wolfish
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mercenarynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmɜː.sən.ri/us/ˈmɝː.sən.ri/a soldier who fights for any country or group that pays them
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Soldiers & people who fight in wars
- Anzac
- bombardier
- capability
- combatant
- crusader
- guardsman
- gunner
- infantryman
- lancer
- non-combatant
- orderly
- para
- partisan
- sepoy
- serviceman
- shogun
- soldier
- storm trooper
- vet
- veteran
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