Mercenary

a.	1.	Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
	2.	Moved primarily by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen. - Daniel.
n.	1.	One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.

Noun	1.	mercenary - a person hired to fight for another country than their own Synonyms: soldier of fortune
Adj.	1.	mercenary - marked by materialism Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded
	2.	mercenary - used of soldiers hired by a foreign army Synonyms: freelance
	3.	mercenary - profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" Synonyms: mercantile, moneymaking

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