"gun-for-hire" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "guns-for-hire",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "guns-for-hire"
      },
      "expansion": "gun-for-hire (plural guns-for-hire)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A contract killer."
      ],
      "id": "en-gun-for-hire-en-noun-uLuKqGfo",
      "links": [
        [
          "contract killer",
          "contract killer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 128",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A contractor."
      ],
      "id": "en-gun-for-hire-en-noun-0ZXzHEyw",
      "links": [
        [
          "contractor",
          "contractor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) A contractor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gun-for-hire"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "guns-for-hire",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "guns-for-hire"
      },
      "expansion": "gun-for-hire (plural guns-for-hire)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A contract killer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "contract killer",
          "contract killer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 128",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A contractor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "contractor",
          "contractor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) A contractor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gun-for-hire"
}