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.
Example Sentences
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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
He is a free lance in the insurance business, being helped greatly by his aggressive personality and eloquence.
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
To find out precisely what Congress thinks about Prohibition, as distinguished from what it does, became the journalistic assignment of William H. Crawford, free lance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Often she had to accept "free lance" stenography and typing, and not infrequently auxiliary clerk work of a humdrum and narrowing order.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
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