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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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
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
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
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
Up to that date, Lafayette had fought as a free lance the commercial battle of the United States, using his personal influence and family connections to undermine the prestige of the Farmers-general.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
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