Mercenary vs Greed - What's the difference?
mercenary | greed |
Motivated by private gain.
* Dryden
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.
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
As nouns the difference between mercenary and greed
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 greed is a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.As an adjective mercenary
is motivated by private gain.mercenary
English
(wikipedia mercenary)Adjective
(en adjective)- For God forbid I should my papers blot / With mercenary lines, with servile pen.
Synonyms
* (motivated by private gain) greedy, venalNoun
(mercenaries)Synonyms
* SeeSee also
* soldiergreed
English
Noun
- His greed was his undoing.
- What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.
