Adjective:

वेतन-भोगी, तंख़्वाहदार, स्वार्थलोलुप, लोभी, किराये का,

mercenaries's Usage Examples:

By this time the rising had attained the dimensions of a revolution; all the feudal levies of the kingdom were called out against it; and mercenaries were hired in haste from Venice, Bohemia and the emperor.

These served partly as mercenaries, partly in contingents contributed by the states in virtue of their alliance.

They were first noticed by Lepsius at Abu-Simbel, where he correctly inferred that they were the work of the Carian mercenaries of Psammetichus.

Lodovico escaped to Germany, returned the next year, was betrayed by his Swiss mercenaries and sent to die at Loches in France.

At the same time John Casimir, brother of the elector palatine, at the invitation of the Calvinist party and with the secret financial aid of Queen Elizabeth, entered the country at the head of a body of German mercenaries from the east.

With 15,000 mercenaries, whom he had to train into Roman discipline, he took Carthage, defeated Gelimer the Vandal king, and carried him captive, in 534, to grace the first triumph witnessed in Constantinople.

His reading in Livy taught him to admire the Roman system of employing armies raised from the body of the citizens; and Cesare Borgia's method of gradually substituting the troops of his own duchy for aliens and mercenaries showed him that this plan might be adopted with success by the Italians.

It must further be noticed that the rise of mercenaries was synchronous with a change in the nature of Italian despotism.

The mercenaries again held Ortygia and Achradina.

This was better in some respects than if the mercenaries had been foreigners.

Synonyms:

adventurer, soldier of fortune, ninja, venturer,

Antonyms:

monastical, nonprofessional, salaried, nonworker, unprofitable,