- (of a person or their behaviour) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics（人, 行为）以金钱为目的的, 唯利是图的, 贪财的：
she's nothing but a mercenary little gold-digger.
她只不过是个唯利是图的用色相骗钱的小女人。
(pl. -ies)
1- a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army外国雇佣兵。
1.1
- a person primarily concerned with material reward at the expense of ethics金钱至上者, 唯利是图者：
cricket's most infamous mercenary.
板球界最臭名昭著的唯利是图者。
派生词
mercenariness
noun词源
late Middle English (as a noun)： from Latin mercenarius 'hireling'， from merces, merced- 'reward'.