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noun Also, free lance.

Also, freelancer. a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.

a person who contends in a cause or in a succession of various causes, as he or she chooses, without personal attachment or allegiance.

verb (used without object)

to act or work as a freelance: The illustrator used to be employed by us but is freelancing now.

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verb (used with object)

to produce, sell, or accomplish as a freelance: to freelance a magazine article.

adjective

of or pertaining to a freelance or the work of a freelance: a freelance writer; freelance copyediting.

adverb

in the manner of a freelance: She works freelance.

Also, free-lance.

Origin:
free + lance¹

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Alternatively, it could force the publishers to pull from their data bases any freelance work covered by the ruling.

She began a freelance writing, editing, and training business earlier this year.

Freelance divers, seeking salvage rather than knowledge, despoil them.

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Alternatively, it could force the publishers to pull from their data bases any freelance work covered by the ruling.

She began a freelance writing, editing, and training business earlier this year.

Freelance divers, seeking salvage rather than knowledge, despoil them.

She had to decide between the comfort of a staff news job and the unknown of freelance photography.

She dayjobs as a freelance social media specialist and digital journalist.

Freelance writers are typically paid by the article, not by the hour, so idle web-surfing does nothing but lower my paycheck.

Shapiro, who is keeping her name, is a freelance writer.

Start scouting out these freelance opportunities now.

Second, it must be shown that freelance testing by would-be nuclear powers does not pay off.

Whittle is a freelance writer who specializes in home improvement, green living and pet care issues.

Freelance translators usually work for several translation companies.

Google isn't asking the students to do freelance work, though.

Yet much theatre persists in flinging freelance actors together for rehearsal periods of six weeks or less.

She is a freelance writer, covering a variety of topics, including pet care and operating a small business.

Both women acknowledge that the challenge of setting up a freelance consulting business lies in marketing their services.

The freelance market is booming and completely unaccounted for.

The freelance economy is an amazing thing to behold.

He did a lot of freelance work for a textbook company.

Expect great wedding images: a freelance photographer marries a freelance cinematographer.

As for being a freelance hack-well, a lucky few may be famous enough to pick.

Freelance geologist dealing with quaternary outcrops interested in the history and the development of.

The following is a list of departments open to freelance submission and specific guidelines for submitting to them.

Engaging a freelance deceiver is also less risky than dragging a friend into a ruse.

He did not go to college, choosing freelance photography while working at a radio station instead.

The publications will be led by a flagship editor and will feature the work of freelance journalists.

Bryce, a freelance journalist specializing in energy issues, mounts a savage attack on the concept of energy independence and.

Fencing and even branding are contracted out to a new breed of freelance day-labouring cowboys.

He advanced as a freelance photographer, producing portraits of people he met on the street.

Unless they gave you a byline and paid you a freelance fee, that's not only mindbogglingly lazy journalism.

At one level, you know full well that taxes eventually must be paid on freelance income.

Go to freelance writing when you are willing get know about this good topic.

Also for temporary options, consider freelance technical writing/editing.

Maybe they thought he was doing a bad job because of his extra courses at the nearby community college and his freelance writing.

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World English Dictionary

freelance (ˈfriːˌlɑːns)

—n
1.	a. Also called: freelancer a self-employed person, esp a writer or artist, who is not employed continuously but hired to do specific assignments
	b. (as modifier): a freelance journalist
2.	a person, esp a politician, who supports several causes or parties without total commitment to any one
3.	(in medieval Europe) a mercenary soldier or adventurer

—vb
4.	to work as a freelance on (an assignment, etc)

—*adv*
5.	as a freelance

[C19 (in sense 3): later applied to politicians, writers, etc]

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freelance

also free lance, free-lance, "medieval mercenary warrior," 1820, from free + lance; apparently a coinage of Sir Walter Scott's. Figurative sense is from 1864; specifically of journalism by 1882. Related: Freelancer. The verb is first attested 1903.

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