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Free lance   /fri læns/   Listen
Free lance

noun
1.
A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them.  Synonyms: free-lance, freelance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person.






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"Free lance" Quotes from Famous Books



... first. "Better proposition than before," Martinson said. Well, perhaps it would be best to look into it; Luck was too experienced to believe that one success means permanent success; there are too many risks for the free lance to run when a single failure means financial annihilation. If the Acme would come to his terms, it might be to his advantage to take his boys back and accept this peace-offering. At any rate, he appreciated to the full ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... in the universities. He saw, or thought he saw, English religion milked for the benefit of Oxford and Cambridge graduates needful of "livings"; and Darwinism and the new sciences generally being swept into the maw of the same professionally intellectual class. A free lance himself, with a table in the British Museum, some books and a deficit instead of an income from his intellectual labors, he attacked the vested interests ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... the novelist, may have used persuasion at this juncture with her father and mother. At any rate, as the issue of a great deal of lively discussion, the parents agreed to let Honore make a two years' experiment as a free lance in the ranks of the book-writing tribe. By the end of that time, they no doubt imagined he would be glad enough to re-enact the parable of the prodigal son and ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton



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