Predator vs Mercenary - What's the difference?
predator | mercenary |
any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food
someone who attacks and plunders for gain
a sexual predator
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.
As nouns the difference between predator and mercenary
is that predator is any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food while 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.As an adjective mercenary is
motivated by private gain.predator
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia predator) (en noun)- The woman was jailed after the judge called her a predator .
Anagrams
* * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==Noun
Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , predator, predatori , predatora, predatora , predatoru, predatorima , predatora, predatore , predatore, predatori , predatoru, predatorima , predatorom, predatorima }}mercenary
English
(wikipedia mercenary)Adjective
(en adjective)- For God forbid I should my papers blot / With mercenary lines, with servile pen.
