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Mercenary vs Assassins - What's the difference?

mercenary | assassins |

As nouns the difference between mercenary and assassins

is that mercenary is a person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose prime or sole motivation is private gain while assassins is .

As an adjective mercenary

is motivated by private gain.

mercenary

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Motivated by private gain.
  • * Dryden
  • For God forbid I should my papers blot / With mercenary lines, with servile pen.

    Synonyms

    * (motivated by private gain) greedy, venal

    Noun

    (mercenaries)
  • A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose prime or sole motivation is private gain.
  • Synonyms

    * See

    See also

    * soldier

    assassins

    English

    Noun

    (head)
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