MERCENARY
ADJECTIVES
► VENAL connected or associated with sordid and unprincipled bargaining; subject to mercenary or corrupt influences → 1718
► VENDITIVE of a person: ready to be of service for purely mercenary considerations → 1633 obs.
ADVERBS
► VENALLY in a venal or mercenary manner → 1756
NOUNS – PERSON
► MYRMIDON a member of a gang or army adhering to a particular leader; a hired ruffian or mercenary → 1647
► VAGER a soldier hired for wages; a mercenary soldier; a ‘wageour’ → 1865 Sc. (Bk.)
► VENTURER a mercenary soldier; a raider or looter following an army → 1599
► WAGEOUR a mercenary soldier; a soldier hired for wages → 1375 Sc. obs.
► WILD GOOSE a mercenary → Vietnam war usage
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