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Mercenary - serving merely for pay or sordid advantage
A mercenary (sometimes shortened to merc) – also called a soldier of fortune, a hired gun, or, archaically, a sellsword – is a private individual who joins a military conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests

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A mercenary (sometimes shortened to merc) – also called a soldier of fortune, a hired gun, or, archaically, a sellsword – is a private individual who joins a military conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests