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.
Example Sentences
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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
Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish happiness of a man who has done his first honest day's work at a job he likes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He broke away to free lance six years ago, began to get places when Marshall Field's PM hired him and gave his pictures a big play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mainly responsible for the show's success is a smart Hollywood free lance radio writer named Robert Leigh Redd.
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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