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freelance

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle), Adverb
 : 
free=lance

CIDE DICTIONARY

freelancen. 
  •  a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.  [PJC]
  •  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.  [PJC]
freelancea. 
     of or pertaining to a freelance{2}; as, a freelance photographer.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

freelance, n., v., & adv.
--n.
1 a (also freelancer) a person, usu. self-employed, offering services on a temporary basis, esp. to several businesses etc. for particular assignments. b (attrib.) (a freelance editor).
2 (usu. free lance) hist. a medieval mercenary.
--v.intr. act as a freelance.
--adv. as a freelance.

Etymology
19th c.: orig. in sense 2 of n.

ROGET THESAURUS

freelance

Freedom

N freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.


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