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freelance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun freelance has 1 sense
- freelance(n = noun.person) free lance, free-lance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person - a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them; Array is a kind of worker
Derived form verb freelance1
Verb freelance has 1 sense
- freelance(v = verb.social) Array - work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer; Array is one way to do work, work
Derived forms noun free lance1, noun free-lance1, noun freelance1, adjective freelance1, noun freelancer1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
Adjective freelance has 2 senses
- freelance(a = adj.all) free-lance, self-employed - working for yourself; Array Derived form verb freelance1
- freelance(s = adj.all) free-lance, mercenary - serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"
Antonym: salaried
CIDE DICTIONARY
freelance, n.
- a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors. [PJC]
- a person who pursues a profession independently, and not as the employee of an organization; -- used especially of writers or photographers who sell their work to organizations of which they are not employees. [PJC]
freelance, a.
of or pertaining to a freelance{2}; as, a freelance photographer. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
freelance, n., v., & adv.
--n.
1 a (also freelancer) a person, usu. self-employed, offering services on a temporary basis, esp. to several businesses etc. for particular assignments. b (attrib.) (a freelance editor).
2 (usu. free lance) hist. a medieval mercenary.
--v.intr. act as a freelance.
--adv. as a freelance.
--n.
1 a (also freelancer) a person, usu. self-employed, offering services on a temporary basis, esp. to several businesses etc. for particular assignments. b (attrib.) (a freelance editor).
2 (usu. free lance) hist. a medieval mercenary.
--v.intr. act as a freelance.
--adv. as a freelance.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. in sense 2 of n.
ROGET THESAURUS
freelance
Freedom
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