mercenary

Adjective

• profit oriented
  • a commercial book
    
  • preached a mercantile and militant patriotism- John Buchan
    
  • a mercenary enterprise
    
  • a moneymaking business
    

• serving for wages in a foreign army
  • mercenary killers
    

• marked by materialism

Noun

• a person hired to fight for another country than their own

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mercantile , moneymaking(a) , mercenary(a) , free-lance(a) , freelance(a) , materialistic , worldly-minded , soldier of fortune