Usually means: Hired to murder for payment.
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  1. contract killer: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. Contract-killer, Contract killer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A person who contracts to kill a specified person for an agreed sum of money.

Similar:
gun-for-hire, hitman, hitperson, contractor, executioner, gunman, hitter, cop-killer, commission agent, hired gun, more...

Opposite:
hired gun, hitman, assassin, mercenary

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Similar:
gun-for-hire, hitman, hitperson, contractor, executioner, gunman, hitter, cop-killer, commission agent, hired gun, more...

Opposite:
hired gun, hitman, assassin, mercenary



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