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单词 free-lance
释义 free-lance
I. \ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective
Etymology: free lance
: of, relating to, or befitting a free lance
 < free-lance factual articles — Americana Annual >
 < sold … free-lance material to newsreel companies — Current Biography >
 < free-lance illustrating — Print >
especially : independent or being under no long-term especially contractual commitment to any person, company, group, or ideology
 < a free-lance writer >
 < a free-lance designer of window displays — Current Biography >
 < the alliance in this country between free-lance intellect and formal political power — Times Literary Supplement >
 < left shortly for a period of free-lance missionary work in Chicago — Carey McWilliams >
 < a free-lance wearing-apparel salesman — New York Times >
 < the free-lance or lone-wolf gambler is a survival of the old frontier days — D.W.Maurer >
II. verb
Etymology: free lance
intransitive verb
: to act as a free lance
 < spent ten years on the Times, until 1924, when he left to free-lance; has written novels; has contributed to magazines — Bernard Kalb >
transitive verb
: to offer or contract for the purchase of in the manner of a free lance
 < tried free-lancing his sketches in New York and London >
 < the others still free-lance their instrumental talents or sing at churches and with choral groups — Martin Mayer >
especially : to write and submit for publication in the manner of a free-lance writer
 < he free-lanced pieces for British publications >
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