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Mercenary vs Mercery - What's the difference?

mercenary | mercery |

As nouns the difference between mercenary and mercery

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 mercery is (uncountable) the trade of mercers.

As an adjective mercenary

is motivated by private gain.

mercenary

English

(wikipedia 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

    mercery

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The trade of mercers.
  • (countable) A mercer's shop.
  • The goods in which a mercer deals.
    • (Webster 1913)