Mercenary /(?)/

1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
2. Moved primarily by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.

   For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen.

pl. Mercenaries

1. One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.