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hired gun Forensic medicine A popular term for a physician, lawyer or other highly paid expert who is not a regular employee of a particular enterprise, whose services are paid only as long as necessary; the term is an analogy from the use of
mercenaries to fight in a conflict. Cf Physician expert witness, Prostitute. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I was arrested trying to stop Idaho Fish and Game Department's employees and hired guns from killing my elk as the elk returned to my private land. He said union leaders who represent the interests of working people are different from ``professionally trained, hired guns that come out of a firm somewhere that have gone to lobbyist school and are trained to represent an industry. TAM Arnold lost his Big Four measures Propositions 74 through 77--because this band of political hired guns deserved to lose. |
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