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noun

Freelance n.

A person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.

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.

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Etymology of 'Freelance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Freelance" Quotes from Famous Books

... but I cannot tell until I meet Colonel Marchbanks. I am not, indeed, under his command—being what you may call a sort of freelance—but I work with him chiefly, that is, under his directions, for he and I hold much the same ideas in regard to most things, and have a common desire to see something like solid peace in the land. Look, do you see that villa with the rustic porch on the ...

— The Rover of the Andes - A Tale of Adventure on South America • R.M. Ballantyne

... but having no commission, he was placed in rather a delicate position, though the very fact that he was, in a sense, a freelance, made him more ...

— The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys • John de Morgan

... not require a chaperon from her; society would, indeed, resent a chaperon if she were to appear with one. Society not only granted her freedom, but demanded that she should exercise it. As a freelance she would be taken notice of, as a respectable, marriageable girl she would be passed over. The cradle and the masterpiece were irreconcilable ideals. He drew an amusing picture of the prima donna's husband, ...

— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

... did not place a period to the career of this venerable Pacific freelance. Was he not engaged in some wild venture even now? Some mysterious business that had begun with bloodshed, and would end—how? What had Little Billy said? "Bound for the End o' the World!" And what, pray, would they find at the End o' ...

— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer

Words linked to "Freelance" : self-employed person, freelancer, work, free-lance, mercenary, worker, self-employed, salaried, paid, free lance