I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
hire
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Encouraged by this, Viscount Aimar decided to hire mercenaries in Gascony and denounce the peace terms so recently agreed.
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The U.N. did once consider hiring mercenaries .
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Yes, but Lonrho had hired mercenaries .
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Above all he used his immense cash resources to hire large numbers of mercenaries .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Colombian police said the mercenaries were hired by drug traffickers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If mercenaries had been protecting the Balkan safe havens, there might never have been the massacre of Srebrenica.
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Lawyers in the main were intellectual mercenaries to be bought and sold in any cause....
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Like mercenaries, they wrangle and scheme for money wherever money can be found.
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More than eight hundred mercenaries, but not in battle order.
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Nor were mercenaries supplied only by very small or weak States.
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Ogre bands are often recruited as mercenaries into the Empire's armies, where their great strength is highly valued.
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On his return to Aquitaine he was able to recruit mercenaries on a large scale.
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Yes, but Lonrho had hired mercenaries.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sponsors were criticized for their mercenary attitude toward the Olympic games.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first glance, he resembled a truck driver, or perhaps a mercenary soldier.
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Collectors who are really dedicated have to be as mercenary as Boba Fett to get what they want.
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For better or worse, with sincerity or mercenary attachment, the hip musical climate was heavily involved.
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He created a chain of fortified villages and strongpoints and established a corps of mercenary troops to guard them.
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So the choice often comes down to mercenary peacekeeping or no peacekeeping.
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Their hair was everywhere in the gusts: a solemn mercenary navy imported by a poor place.
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To a very recently bereaved family who are struggling with a multiplicity of emotions this early attention to fees can seem mercenary .