Usually means: Professional expert for temporary employment.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word hired gun:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. hired gun: Merriam-Webster
  2. hired gun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hired gun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hired gun: Vocabulary.com
  5. hired-gun: Wordnik
  6. hired gun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hired gun: Wiktionary
  8. hired gun: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. hired gun: Dictionary.com
  10. Hired Gun (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. hired gun: Rhymezone
  12. hired gun: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hired gun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. hired gun: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. hired gun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  3. hired gun: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hired gun: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hired gun: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hired gun: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hired gun)

noun:  A person who is employed as an armed guard, enforcer, or mercenary and who is prepared to use gunplay or similar violent methods in order to assert the interests of their employer.
noun:  (idiomatic, by extension) A person who is employed to advance the interests of their employer, especially in a vigorous manner using such methods as political lobbying, legal advocacy, or persuasion.

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