PMAa soldier who fights for any country or group that will pay him 雇佣兵
an army of foreign mercenaries
外国雇佣军团
a mercenary soldier
一名雇佣兵
Examples from the Corpus
mercenary• Ogrebands are often recruited as mercenaries into the Empire's armies, where their great strength is highly valued.• Yes, but Lonrho had hiredmercenaries.• More than eight hundred mercenaries, but not in battle order.• If mercenaries had been protecting the Balkan safehavens, there might never have been the massacre of Srebrenica.• Lawyers in the main were intellectualmercenaries to be bought and sold in any cause...• Like mercenaries, they wrangle and scheme for money wherever money can be found.• On his return to Aquitaine he was able to recruit mercenaries on a large scale.• Colombian police said the mercenaries were hired by drugtraffickers.• Nor were mercenariessupplied only by very small or weak States.
mercenary2adjectiveadj
SELFISHonly interested in the money you may be able to get from a person, job etc 只对钱感兴趣的,唯利是图的
ADJECTIVE | ... OF MERCENARIES | VERB + MERCENARY | MERCENARY + NOUNADJECTIVE➤foreign外國雇傭兵➤hired雇傭兵... OF MERCENARIES➤army, band, group一支雇傭軍;一夥雇傭兵◇a small army of mercenaries一小隊雇傭軍VERB + MERCENARY➤employ, hire, recruit雇用雇傭兵;招募雇傭兵▸➤pay付錢給雇傭兵➤become變成雇傭兵◇Six years ago, he became a mercenary for a private military corporation.6 年前,他成為一家私人軍事公司的雇傭兵。MERCENARY + NOUN➤army, group雇傭軍;雇傭兵團