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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.

adjective

Freelance adj. Of or pertaining to a freelance 2; as, a freelance photographer.

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Etymology of 'Freelance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Freelance" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mendelssohn had grown steadily, and it was now at its apogee, for Lessing had written Nathan Der Weise, and in the tempest that followed its production, and despite the ban placed on the play and its author in both Catholic and Protestant countries, the most fanatical Christian foes of the bold freelance could not cry ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... trade; noninterference &c 706; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]. immunity, exemption; emancipation &c (liberation) 750; enfranchisement, affranchisement^. free land, freehold; allodium^; frankalmoigne [Fr.], mortmain [Fr.]. bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent. V. be free &c adj.; have scope &c n., have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget