sellsword
Noun
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Noun
sellsword (plural sellswords)
- (usually, fantasy) A mercenary.
- 2005, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, "Chapter 1: The Battle Begins", developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube:
- Bandit: It's those fool villagers...They think they can buy a bunch of sellswords to chase us away.
- 2005, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, "Chapter 1: The Battle Begins", developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube:
- (hence figuratively, often, derogatory) Someone who only works for money, in the manner of a mercenary.
- (mercenary) see Thesaurus:mercenary
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