MERCENARIES Synonyms

• a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

• large but transportable armament

• a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

• a professional killer who uses a gun

• a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine

• a pedal that controls the throttle valve

• the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies

• shoot with a gun

• a newly hired employee

• the act of hiring something or someone

• engage or hire for work

• hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

• engage for service under a term of contract

• an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

• a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony

• serve as a soldier in the military

• someone engaged in or experienced in warfare

• connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises

• of or relating to commercialism

• a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television

• of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior

• profit oriented

• working for yourself

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• working for yourself

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

• marked by materialism

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism

• profit oriented

• relating to or characteristic of trade or traders

• the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)

• producing a sizeable profit

• profit oriented

• marked by materialism

• a person hired to fight for another country than their own