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freelance
[ free-lans, -lans ]
adjective
- of or relating to work conducted by a person who sells their services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer: Compare full-time ( def 2 ).
a freelance writer;
freelance copyediting.
verb (used without object)
- to sell services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer:
The illustrator used to be employed by us but is freelancing now.
verb (used with object)
- to produce, sell, or accomplish (something) while selling services by the hour, day, job, etc.:
Every so often I freelance a magazine article for some extra cash.
adverb
- in the manner of one who sells services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer:
She works freelance.
noun
- a person who contends in a cause or in a succession of various causes, as they choose, without personal attachment or allegiance.
freelance
/ ˈfriːˌlɑːns /
noun
- Also calledfreelancer a self-employed person, esp a writer or artist, who is not employed continuously but hired to do specific assignments
- ( as modifier )
a freelance journalist
- a person, esp a politician, who supports several causes or parties without total commitment to any one
- (in medieval Europe) a mercenary soldier or adventurer
verb
- to work as a freelance on (an assignment, etc)
adverb
- as a freelance
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Origin of freelance1
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Example Sentences
Freelance journalist Austin Tice was abducted in Syria more than two years ago.
He was a former bodyguard for Aung San Suu Kyi and a prominent freelance reporter.
The Herald asked her to be a freelance reporter, but not because of her notorious status.
Lottie Joiner is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer and senior editor of The Crisis magazine.
He now lives in Seoul, where he teaches at Hongik University and also works as a freelance fashion photographer.
Mom's a freelance relocation specialist who helps British people get settled in in San Francisco.
Denis, a Democrat at heart, was something of a freelance, inclined to tilt indiscriminately at both parties.
The thing that I should now most like to be is a freelance writer.
As I get it, he is a sort of freelance writer, and I think he was on an assignment then.
She could be a freelance in Love's lists, notwithstanding the inconvenience of a legal attachment.
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