freelance
adjective
of or relating to work conducted by a person who sells their services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
freelanced
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past participleof freelance.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof freelance.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
freelanceadjectiveof or relating to work conducted by a person who sells their services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
Example Sentences
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She began writing straight out of college, freelanced for years and eventually followed a path taken by many young Filipinos: joining a multinational in the country's booming outsourcing industry.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Prior to that, she led writing groups in juvenile halls across the Bay Area and freelanced in Cairo during the Egyptian revolution and Arab Spring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
The 50-year-old Chicano illustrator with more than a decade of experience as an independent artist had occasionally freelanced for IDW Publishing and Image Comics, but this was his biggest opportunity to date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
I worked for newspapers and freelanced for magazines.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
