how to pronounce mercenary

/ˈmɝsəˌnɛɹiː/

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mercenary is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of mercenary in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… not done so well dying as a mercenary in …”

meaning of mercenary

Mercenary means a person who is hired to fight for a cause or country.

mercenary frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word mercenary occurs in english on average 1.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics mercenary can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that mercenary can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;