Mercenariness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state or condition of being mercenary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being mercenary; venality.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The character of being mercenary; venality; regard to hire or reward; action or conduct uniformly prompted by the love of gain or the acquisition of money as a chief end.
  • Word Usage
    "The Western Front does not cover everything -- the deceptions of the Bush Administration, the unintelligence of the intelligence community, the incompetence of the US civilian authority in Baghdad, the mercenariness of the humanitarian and reconstruction industry, the inflexibility of the US military leadership - no one film could indulge all those wrongs."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    venality