hired gun in English
noun
1
an expert brought in to resolve complex problems or to lobby for a cause.
it is a chance for an insurance company's hired gun to find some excuse to deny your benefits
2
a hired bodyguard, mercenary, or assassin.
I'm not ready to call these guys mercenaries, because I think there's a line between domestic PMCs and mercenaries or hired guns .
Use "hired gun" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "hired gun" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "hired gun", or refer to the context using the word "hired gun" in the English Dictionary.
1. He's a middleman, a hired gun.
2. Blakely is just a hired gun, like Gage.
3. When a former CIA-operative-turned-hired-gun joins forces with tech giant Cumulus, cracks in the digital facade emerge, laid bare by …
4. Meanwhile, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen had started complaining about his role in the band, feeling like "a hired gun who would only do what he's asked to".