Meaning of gun-for-hire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A contract killer.
2. A contractor.
   broadly

Examples

“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 for hire and telling anybody who would listen what a rotten hand he had been dealt.”

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