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freelance

Freelance is defined as a working arrangement when a person sells their services to individual buyers with whom they are not employed.

(noun)

An example of freelance is someone writing songs for many different musicians.

The definition of freelance is someone who does work for individual buyers.

(adjective)

An example of freelance is a graphic designer doing a job for someone who is not their employer.

See freelance in Webster's New World College Dictionary

or free-lance

noun

a writer, musician, artist, etc. who is not under contract for regular work but whose writings or services are sold to individual buyers

also freelancer or free-lancer

adjective

of or working as a freelance

intransitive verb freelanced, freelancing

to work as a freelance

transitive verb

to produce or work on as a freelance

See freelance in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun also free lance (frēˈlănsˌ)

A person who sells services to employers without a long-term commitment to any of them.
An uncommitted independent, as in politics or social life.
A medieval mercenary.

verb free·lanced, free·lanc·ing, free·lanc·es

verb, intransitive

To work as a freelance: a journalist who freelances.

verb, transitive

To produce and sell as a freelance: freelanced the article to a magazine publisher.

adjective

Of, relating to, or working as a freelance.

Related Forms:

freeˈlancˌer noun

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