The phrase
"hired gun" means a person who is paid to do a specific job or task, usually involving using their skills or expertise. The term is often used to describe someone who is hired for their abilities in a particular field, such as a professional assassin or a skilled consultant.
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Sentences with «hired gun»
- Too often, public affairs professionals are portrayed as hired guns. (totalpolitics.com)
- In a nutshell, a Korean hired gun who kills a little girl on his rounds obtaining stolen data, then is obliged to off her mother. (popdose.com)
- These were not hired guns, they were government employees who could have had an official cover. (politics.stackexchange.com)
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