free lance
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a mercenary soldier or military adventurer of the Middle Ages, often of knightly rank, who offered his services to any state, party, or cause.
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Since 1927 Jack Price has prospered as a free lance, now occupies a neat studio in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a correspondent and free lance in Spain, after the Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sam Erlich, a fellow free lance, undertook Lisa, Hedda, Joel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frank Harris, 74, born in Ireland of Welsh parents, is one of few living literary men to whom the term "free lance" can be fittingly applied.
From Time Magazine Archive
What happened to me in making a beginning as a free lance producer of non-fiction might happen to any one else of an equal amount of inexperience.
From If You Don't Write Fiction by Charles Phelps Cushing
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