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noun- The quality of being profit oriented (only)

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Usage examples (9)
  • Why are mercenariness not entering the area to find him?
  • We should accomplish this based upon morality, conscience, patriotism, and integrity, because there have always been athletes who in recent times have been lured by...
  • But having there thus elevated and puffed him up, he again here throws him down to mercenariness and sophistry; nay, to asking money and even to receiving it beforehand,...
  • This attribution of mercenariness to Burke (who had in fact accepted a small pension from the British government for services rendered, and who had also been the London...
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