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Monetary vs Mercenary - What's the difference?

monetary | mercenary |

As adjectives the difference between monetary and mercenary

is that monetary is of, pertaining to, or consisting of money while mercenary is motivated by private gain.

As a noun 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.

monetary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.

    • Related terms

    * mint * money * monetarism * monetarist

    External links

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    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