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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Mr. Breen described himself as a free lance operator who made markets in stocks for corporations or their officials.
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
Since 1927 Jack Price has prospered as a free lance, now occupies a neat studio in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a correspondent and free lance in Spain, after the Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Benkei, the giant halberdier, had turned his back upon the priesthood, and, becoming a free lance, conceived the ambition of forcibly collecting a thousand swords from their wearers.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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