Mercenary 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 3
Mercenary 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 3
/ mɜs ə n ə ri/ (adj & noun)
only interested in the money that you can get in one way or another, motivated only by money, acquisitive, greedy, grasping, avaricious, covetous, a soldier who fights for money, soldier of fortune, dog of war, guerrilla
According to Komisar, in a mercenary business culture there is ‘drive’. This represents an aggressive approach to leading a business, focusing largely on the bottom-line of financial statements, agonising over click-rates and user-numbers without much anxiety concerning the meaning beyond those figures. Mercenary company builders are characterised as opportunists with their calculations tending to be made with a short-term outlook.
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Antonym: altruistic, benevolent
Noun: mercenariness
Adverb: mercenarily
