What is the diffrents between a mercenary and an assassin?(school project)?

Question

Requierments education ie.

Answer 1

A mercenary is a simple soldier hired to be part of an army. An assasin is someone loyal to a country, which mercenaries aren't, who silently infiltrates enemy lives to kill a specific target.

Answer 2

a mercenary is a soldier for hire they generally hire out as a unit under the command of one man the mercenary leader who is responsible for securing work and ensuring his men are well provisioned and well payed

an assasin on the other hand genarally works alone and behind the scenes for a political leader, assassin is the quiet unobtrusive killer who should be skillful enough to kill without detection (looks accidental or suicide etc, where as a hired mecenary would prob be more suited to combat or guarding a compound. thats my opinion it should at least give you some idea anyway so don't take all that as fact

Answer 3

A mercenary is a general term for a person who is paid to be a soldier, and a mercenary could be an assassin. An assassin is more specific, and describes a person who is targeting an individual or group of individuals for termination.

Answer 4

A mercenary is paid by someone else to do the job. An assassin may be paid but often does it because they want to make a political statement, they have a grudge, etc.

Answer 5

An assassin kills people usually for political or religious reasons. A mercenary kills for money and has no emotional involvement.

Answer 6

mercenaries are paid soldiers who can do almost what ever they want and are used to fight in wars, Assassins are silent killers who are paid to kill people but aren't used in war very much if at all

Answer 7

All the answers are almost right. I wonder why most pf them have been marked as bad or abusive answers.