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Freelance

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Noun

1. free lance, free-lance, freelance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person

a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

Verb

2. freelance

work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

Adjective

3. free-lance, freelance, self-employed

working for yourself

4. free-lance, freelance, mercenary

serving for wages in a foreign army

Example Sentences:
'mercenary killers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Freelance

see synonyms of freelance
noun
1. 
a. Also called: freelancer
a self-employed person, esp a writer or artist, who is not employed continuously but hired to do specific assignments
b. 
(as modifier)
a freelance journalist
2. 
a person, esp a politician, who supports several causes or parties without total commitment to any one
3. 
(in medieval Europe) a mercenary soldier or adventurer
verb
4. 
to work as a freelance on (an assignment, etc)
adverb
5. 
as a freelance

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Freelance

see synonyms of freelance
noun
1. 
a writer, musician, artist, etc. who is not under contract for regular work but whose writings or services are sold to individual buyers
: also ˈfreeˌlancer, ˈfree-ˌlancer
adjective
2. 
of or working as a freelance
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈfreeˌlanced or ˈfreeˌlancing
3. 
to work as a freelance
verb transitive
4. 
to produce or work on as a freelance

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Freelance

see synonyms of freelance
v. free·lanced, free·lanc·ing, free·lanc·es
v.intr.
1. To work as a freelancer: a journalist who freelances.
2. To act independently without orders from another: an official who was freelancing when he committed the crime.
v.tr.
To produce and sell as a freelancer: freelanced the article to a magazine publisher.
n. also free lance
1. A freelancer.
2. An uncommitted independent, as in politics or social life.
3. A medieval mercenary.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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