Definitions For Mercenary

noun

  • A person hired to fight for another country than their own
  • A soldier who is paid by a foreign country to fight in its army : a soldier who will fight for any group or country that hires him

adjective

  • Profit oriented
  • Serving for wages in a foreign army
  • Marked by materialism

Is Mercenary a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
16
Words with Friends
18

The word Mercenary is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Mercenary in a Sentence

  • An army of foreign mercenaries
  • His motives in choosing a career were purely mercenary.
  • They were a mercenary couple, who defined themselves not by what they were but by what they owned

Synonyms for Mercenary

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