mercenary
adjective /ˈmɜː.sən.ri/
/ˈmɝː-/ disapprovingDefinition
› interested only in the amount of money that you can get from a situation: He had some mercenary scheme to marry a wealthy widow.Greedy
(Definition of mercenary adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- avarice noun
- consumerism noun
- glutton noun
- gluttonous adjective
- gluttony noun
- grasping adjective
- greed noun
- greedy adjective
- greedy guts noun
- growth-oriented adjective
- hoggish adjective
- Mammon noun
- materialism noun (MONEY)
- materialist noun (MONEY)
- materialistic adjective
- pig noun (EATS TOO MUCH)
- piggy noun
- rapacious adjective
- sb's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomach idiom
- wolfish adjective
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