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The word 'hitman' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a hired assassin or contract killer. Example: The notorious crime boss was known for hiring hitmen to take out his enemies.
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hitman
noun
A contract killer; especially one paid by mafia.
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President Nicolás Maduro branded Mr Hausmann a "financial hitman" and threatened him with prosecution.Another Venezuelan economist, Francisco Rodríguez of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, thinks that scarcities of basic goods stem from the government's refusal to adopt sensible exchange-rate policies.
Her revenge came a decade later when Maurizio announced plans to remarry; he was shot dead in 1995 by a hitman hired by his ex-wife.Enter the professionalsThat the brand has survived the family is a tribute to the work of two Americans, Tom Ford and the Italian-born Domenico De Sole.
Given his long career as a hitman, there must be thousands of people who believe that Jim deserves to be shot on sight.
But to avenge his father he joined his gang as a sicario (hitman), and killed his father's murderer.
The allegation that Karel Srba, a senior foreign-ministry official, had hired a hitman to murder a journalist was certainly shocking.
So said John Martorano, a former hitman known as "The Executioner", of his fellow mobsters in a gang led by James Whiteyy" Bulger (pictured), who was was found guilty of 11 murders and racketeering on August 13th.
A wanted right-wing hitman, a police chief and his girlfriend all died in the accident, which exposed links between the state and organised crime.
But in the Nando's ad, created by TBWA Hunt Lascaris, South Africa's second-biggest agency, actors playing Eugene de Kock, the chief hitman for the apartheid regime, and Moses Sithole, a serial killer, call from jail to order takeaways.
Happier viewing was provided by Kagi-dorobō no mesoddo (Key of Life), Kenji Uchida's amusing tale of a struggling actor and a gangster hitman who switch identities.
According to beIN Sports, the Foxes have turned to 29-year-old Rémy after failing with bids for Italian striker Éder, who joined Internazionale in the week, and AC Milan hitman M'Baye Niang.
Her brother-in-law died in a Melbourne café in 2009 when the hitman, Geoffrey Nuts Armourur, pumped seven bullets into his head and chest.
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