gun for hire
Americannoun
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a person armed with a gun and paid to provide security or act as an assassin or mercenary.
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in business, an outside specialist or expert who is retained to work on a particular project and then dismissed.
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In this vigorous and inventive western, Reilly plays a crooked gun for hire who’s desperate to go straight.
From Time ● Nov. 15, 2018
I did my own film but I’m happy to be a gun for hire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2017
Roe is a fast gun gun for hire.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2016
She was the rare artist to make a successful transition from New York Brill Building-era gun for hire to accessible, vulnerable, personal California singer-songwriter.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2015
Like Chris Gayle & many others, he is a gun for hire & the IPL, Big Bash etc will be more than happy to pay for his services?
From BBC ● May 12, 2015
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