free lance

noun

a mercenary soldier or military adventurer of the Middle Ages, often of knightly rank, who offered his services to any state, party, or cause.
freelance ( defs 5, 6 ).

Martyn Gregory is an award-winning free-lance investigative documentary producer and author.

Why should he not try to make friends with this powerful free-lance and half-outlaw?

The very circumstance that he is not of the ruling Party makes a free lance of him.

What could this silk-hatted, cut-away-coated, empearled, free lance of a fellow want with Claude?

Wat put his hand affectionately on the shoulder of the old free-lance.

"I've done some free-lance reporting for John Whitaker," said Brian.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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