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Definition of hired gun in English: hired gunnoun North American informal 1A hired bodyguard, mercenary, or assassin. 雇佣保镖；雇佣兵；雇佣杀手 Example sentencesExamples - The method that is used by the elite in Colombia to ‘take care of business,’ or kill people, is by hired guns.
- I'm not ready to call these guys mercenaries, because I think there's a line between domestic PMCs and mercenaries or hired guns.
- A possibly deadly incident involving Quinn's hired guns underscores the dangers of private forces policing American streets.
- These people are actually mercenaries and should not be allowed to go and fight wars in other countries as hired guns.
- Police said yesterday they have arrested an alleged kidnapper and hired gun who is considered the country's most wanted criminal suspect.
- The arrest of about 70 alleged hired guns in Harare has sparked a frenzy of conflicting reports.
- Are you just a hired gun, a hit man, robbing profit and power from impoverished third world countries?
- This widened the gap between amateur entrants shooting just for fun and the professional hired guns who wanted to shoot for cash.
- As they moved from place to place they were met with the organised violence of a landowning class defending its interests with hired guns.
- More than fifty private security companies are in Iraq today, with an estimated 20,000 hired guns working for them.
- For a movie that's about a professional, meticulous hired gun and the FBI dragnet to track him down, we see very little killing or police work.
- Bress and Gruber thoroughly enjoyed working as hired guns on Final Destination 2.
- Mercenaries are not choirboys, but some outfits have signed up hired guns trained by repressive regimes.
- So Grbac and Johnson are fix-it men, hired guns who come with warning labels.
Synonyms murderer, killer, executioner, gunman, butcher, slaughterer, liquidator, exterminator, terminator 2An expert brought in to resolve complex legal or financial problems or to lobby for a cause. 排忧解难专家（为解决复杂法律或财务问题或为某目标游说而雇佣的专家） it is a chance for an insurance company's hired gun to find some excuse to deny your benefits Example sentencesExamples - While hired guns do not flourish at Harvard or the University of Chicago, however, in Washington they roam in packs.
- At a diplomatic level, despite the hired guns and the planted stories, this image war was lost.
- The cloak is provided by an almost uniformly compliant corps of well-paid news editors, journalists, commentators and hired guns from academia.
- The knee jerk dismissal from the hired guns of business and industry remains altogether less credible.
- They are not hired guns, they are not advocating their own pet theories.
- He said: ‘An expert is not there as a hired gun, as an advocate for one cause or another, but to help the court reach a just verdict.’
- In recent years, many of these hired guns have taken over the networks they were initially contracted to protect.
- Lawyers are paid to be the hired guns and zealously defend the interests of their clients.
- The club struggled before a decision was made to bring in hired guns in the quest for an elusive flag.
- By pointing the finger at Robin, a hired gun, she casts in a grubby light what had until now been seen as a tale of heroic political resistance.
- He was a hired gun for big corporations in the late 1950s, when he went around arguing against unionization.
- Robert and Eric are hired guns, and they do have to perform.
- Austin Adams believes he can run an information technology organization more efficiently than any hired gun.
- Editorial writers are hired guns to write the publisher's opinion so it doesn't really matter who they are.
Definition of hired gun in US English: hired gunnoun North American informal 1A hired bodyguard, mercenary, or assassin. 雇佣保镖；雇佣兵；雇佣杀手 Example sentencesExamples - Are you just a hired gun, a hit man, robbing profit and power from impoverished third world countries?
- This widened the gap between amateur entrants shooting just for fun and the professional hired guns who wanted to shoot for cash.
- Mercenaries are not choirboys, but some outfits have signed up hired guns trained by repressive regimes.
- A possibly deadly incident involving Quinn's hired guns underscores the dangers of private forces policing American streets.
- I'm not ready to call these guys mercenaries, because I think there's a line between domestic PMCs and mercenaries or hired guns.
- The arrest of about 70 alleged hired guns in Harare has sparked a frenzy of conflicting reports.
- More than fifty private security companies are in Iraq today, with an estimated 20,000 hired guns working for them.
- As they moved from place to place they were met with the organised violence of a landowning class defending its interests with hired guns.
- Bress and Gruber thoroughly enjoyed working as hired guns on Final Destination 2.
- Police said yesterday they have arrested an alleged kidnapper and hired gun who is considered the country's most wanted criminal suspect.
- The method that is used by the elite in Colombia to ‘take care of business,’ or kill people, is by hired guns.
- These people are actually mercenaries and should not be allowed to go and fight wars in other countries as hired guns.
- So Grbac and Johnson are fix-it men, hired guns who come with warning labels.
- For a movie that's about a professional, meticulous hired gun and the FBI dragnet to track him down, we see very little killing or police work.
Synonyms murderer, killer, executioner, gunman, butcher, slaughterer, liquidator, exterminator, terminator 2An expert brought in to resolve complex problems or to lobby for a cause. 排忧解难专家（为解决复杂法律或财务问题或为某目标游说而雇佣的专家） it is a chance for an insurance company's hired gun to find some excuse to deny your benefits Example sentencesExamples - Editorial writers are hired guns to write the publisher's opinion so it doesn't really matter who they are.
- The knee jerk dismissal from the hired guns of business and industry remains altogether less credible.
- The cloak is provided by an almost uniformly compliant corps of well-paid news editors, journalists, commentators and hired guns from academia.
- The club struggled before a decision was made to bring in hired guns in the quest for an elusive flag.
- Austin Adams believes he can run an information technology organization more efficiently than any hired gun.
- At a diplomatic level, despite the hired guns and the planted stories, this image war was lost.
- They are not hired guns, they are not advocating their own pet theories.
- In recent years, many of these hired guns have taken over the networks they were initially contracted to protect.
- Lawyers are paid to be the hired guns and zealously defend the interests of their clients.
- By pointing the finger at Robin, a hired gun, she casts in a grubby light what had until now been seen as a tale of heroic political resistance.
- He said: ‘An expert is not there as a hired gun, as an advocate for one cause or another, but to help the court reach a just verdict.’
- Robert and Eric are hired guns, and they do have to perform.
- While hired guns do not flourish at Harvard or the University of Chicago, however, in Washington they roam in packs.
- He was a hired gun for big corporations in the late 1950s, when he went around arguing against unionization.
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