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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Mr. Breen described himself as a free lance operator who made markets in stocks for corporations or their officials.
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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
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.
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From there he went to the New York Times, and from there to Washington to free lance, until Publisher Hearst, whose gum-chewing public dotes on names like Vanderbilt, gobbled him up to write signed articles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Benkei, the giant halberdier, had turned his back upon the priesthood, and, becoming a free lance, conceived the ambition of forcibly collecting a thousand swords from their wearers.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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