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Etymology

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anti- +‎ mercenary

Adjective

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antimercenary (comparative more antimercenary, superlative most antimercenary)

  1. Opposed to mercenaries.
    • 2007 October 3, Maureen Dowd, “Sinking in a Swamp Full of Blackwater”, in New York Times[1]:
      Americans have been antimercenary since the British sent 30,000 German Hessians after George Washington in the Revolutionary War.