free lance
Americannoun
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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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The new Timesman is round, greying, 43-year-old George Walter Streator, new to daily newspapering but a veteran free lance writer, teacher and labor organizer for Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers.
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
Sam Erlich, a fellow free lance, undertook Lisa, Hedda, Joel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Gordon plans to establish a free lance pulpit in "some metropolitan city" where he can reach 3,000 at a time.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not a lack of artistry that administers the most numerous defeats to the novice free lance.
From If You Don't Write Fiction by Charles Phelps Cushing
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