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freelance /ˈfriːlɑːns /adjectiveSelf-employed and hired to work for different companies on particular assignments: a freelance journalist...- A less well publicised role of some public relations companies is to hire freelance journalists to cover events such as major conferences with news stories to be placed in medical publications.
- And I picked up two freelance writing assignments along the way.
- It was a freelance assignment I just couldn't refuse.
adverbEarning one’s living as a freelance: I work freelance from home...- He was promoted to deputy private secretary the following year, earning an annual salary of £180,000 until he went freelance last year.
- He was promoted to a solo artist before he left the company to work freelance both as a dancer and choreographer.
- A greater proportion of women in the study were found to be working freelance compared to men.
noun1A freelance worker.Casual staff, agency workers, freelances and home workers were among those considered only to have ‘worker’ status rather than the more formal ‘employee’ status....- Yes, it was a withdrawal of their labour, but since most jockeys are freelances and self - employed, or have a contract to ride for one principal trainer, they can often pick and choose where they want to race.
- In addition to uniting the cream of the county's photographic excellence, the freelances will also benefit by having a shop window for their high-quality images.
2 historical A medieval mercenary.The initial incursions into Ireland had been by marcher knights and other freelances from south Wales hired by Diarmait MacMurchadha, the King of Leinster. verb [no object]Earn one’s living as a freelance: he freelanced for the BBC and regional companies...- The rest of my income is earned by scraping together what I can from freelancing and speaking.
- I stayed with journalism as a career because I started to earn my way through college by freelancing for newspapers and magazines.
- I just learned how to do stuff through freelancing; my boss is a friend of my uncle's, so I asked for a job there.
Origin![](ac.png) Early 19th century (denoting a mercenary): originally as two words. |