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    a.k.a: [merc].
    A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army.
    A person who works only for monetary gain.

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      A mercenary is a person who takes part in an [armed] [conflict], who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is [motivated] to take part in the hostilities by the desire for private gain. The term mercenary is also used to describe the army itself.

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        [Professional] [blow] [shit] up-er.

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          A person who takes actions for himself and not for others. He chooses to trust himself, have few friends, be self-independent, and prefers not to believe in faith, family, money, society, and popular culture. He highly values honor, merit, integrity, intelligence, and [self-righteousness]. He is not afraid to take risks, become hypocritical to his own self, make the ends justify the means, betray his own people and nations, and usually has [nothing to lose]. Also prefers to associate himself with words like radical, [renegade], and revolution.
          See radical.
          See renegade.
          See revolution.

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            any woman who picks her boyfriends [based on] how much money they have, or make; in other words a money [grubbing] [slut].

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              The [coolest] [job] in [the world].

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                Tanya Shivari
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                Police serving corporate financial and personal interest of [the 1]%, inventing [crimes] and reasons to falsely [arrest] and/or kill members of the 99%

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                  [An awesome] band from [Denmark]. They sound like early [Fear Factory] on some albums.

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                    [One] who [kills] [for the money].

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                      Primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.

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                        The [mercenary] is a professional wrrior, who is often hired as a skilled defender or fighter. Mercenaries go out to the highest [bidder], and lack any sense of honor, but they are very skilled at fighting, often relying upon their [cache] of dirty tricks to defeat an opponent. Mercenaries are not very trustworthy, and often will switch alliances in the midst of a battle.

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                          interested only in the amount of money that you can get from a situation:

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                            (of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.

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