gun-for-hire

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gun-for-hire

noun guns-for-hire

A contract killer.
broadly A contractor. After months of bitter disagreements and legal back-and-forth, he had finally given up and struck out on his own, but he'd met with a string of bad luck—a client who refused to pay, a flood, a false insurance claim—and he'd had to shut up shop; now he was working for a big construction firm as a gun

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@misc{gun_for_hire_2026,
  title = {gun-for-hire},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gun-for-hire},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}