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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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
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
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
Mainly responsible for the show's success is a smart Hollywood free lance radio writer named Robert Leigh Redd.
From Time Magazine Archive
The system of journalistic blackmail was brought to a higher degree of perfection by Westmacott than by any other free lance of the time.
From Old Coloured Books by Paston, George
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