Mercenaries is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MERCENARIES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• MERCENARY, one who works for reward only
ADJECTIVE:
• primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics
• a person primarily motivated by personal gain
• a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that serves merely for wages; a soldier hired into foreign service

Words related to MERCENARIES

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How to use MERCENARIES in a sentence

• These wild mercenaries becoming turbulent, he was obliged to despatch them to Mesolonghi, then threatened with siege by the Turks and anxiously waiting relief.
• In one venture she could afford to spend fifty thousand mercenaries, in another rather more.
• The large sums required to facilitate this measure made it necessary to submit for a while to the presence of the German mercenaries.
• They insisted on maintaining full chests and full magazines, that they might at any time be able to equip mercenaries.
• The mass of Englishmen meanwhile looked after their own affairs and cared nothing about foreign wars fought by Brabancon mercenaries, and paid for by foreign gold.
• We were now miserable mercenaries, serving for low pay and rough rations.
• Another great institution that had taken form and was working smoothly was the Mercenaries.
• Over the city of the Mercenaries we saw a great captive war-balloon that burst even as we looked at it, and fell in flaming wreckage toward the earth.
• Of course, the Iron Heel kept the figures secret, but, at a very conservative estimate, at least one hundred and thirty thousand Mercenaries were slain.
• She must have received warning of the coming of the Mercenaries, for she had time safely to hide the Manuscript before she fled or was captured.
• When they issued forth they appeared clad from head to foot in steel, ravaging the country more like foreign mercenaries than peaceful settlers.
• In her forces were incorporated Greek mercenaries, esteemed the very best of her troops.
• Here native Egyptians, Greek mercenaries, Phoenician and Babylonian traders, and Jewish refugees met on common ground and lived side by side.
• The Greek mercenaries that fought in the Syrian ranks were armed with coats of mail and the best weapons known to the ancient world.
• He also used the sums of money he found in them to gather together a number of mercenaries and to set himself up as king.
• Here for the future they would serve as mercenaries, since Meidias their former master stood no longer in need of their protection.
• All the Ministerial force from every part of America except Canada, with the mercenaries from Europe, being collected for this attempt, God only knows the event.
• The total of the troops which obeyed his word in Italy might be computed at about 27,000, including Spanish cavalry and foot-soldiers, German lansknechts and Italian mercenaries.
• At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
• Among the Greek mercenaries who had lately arrived at Carthage was a Lacedaemonian of the name of Xanthippus.
• He gained several decisive victories, contrived to set tribe against tribe, and took native mercenaries into his pay.
• The committee of supply forthwith granted a very large sum for these purposes, including the charge of German mercenaries.
• I have been told, that the states which treat with Switzerland for mercenaries, condition that none of them shall be raised in Tessino.
• It would have been easy for the North, with her enormous wealth, to have organised a vast army of mercenaries wherewith to crush the South.
• Whatever may be said of Irish and German mercenaries, I must bear witness that the best classes of Americans have bravely come forth for their country.
• The great portion of the mercenaries were encamped in tents outside the walls, for, spacious as it was, Evesham could hardly contain 400 men in addition to its usual garrison.
• Satisfied, now that the mercenaries were gone, that they could henceforth hold their ground against Prince John, the royal barons also broke up their forces.
• No doubt the mercenaries made a stout resistance, but they were vastly outnumbered, and were not much better troops than their adversaries.
• He had enrolled as many as sixty thousand of the Egyptian warrior class, and had the services of twenty thousand Greek mercenaries, and of about the same number of Libyan troops.
• Large numbers of the priests were like the mercenaries of Italy, who sold their influence and even their swords or those of their followers, to the highest bidder.
• Even in war Mahomedan mercenaries took service with Hindu chiefs, and Hindus under Mahomedan captains.

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