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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Since 1927 Jack Price has prospered as a free lance, now occupies a neat studio in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper.
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Mainly responsible for the show's success is a smart Hollywood free lance radio writer named Robert Leigh Redd.
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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.
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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
This is, of course, notably true of "Hunger," which was written at the age of thirty, when his own experiences as a journalistic free lance in Christiania were still fresh in his mind.
From Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen
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