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FREELANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
Synonyms:
free-lance; free lance; freelance; freelancer; independent; self-employed person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("freelance" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Derivation:
freelance (work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Working for yourself
Synonyms:
free-lance; freelance; self-employed
Classified under:
Antonym:
salaried (receiving a salary)
Derivation:
freelance (work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Serving for wages in a foreign army
Example:
mercenary killers
Synonyms:
free-lance; freelance; mercenary
Classified under:
Similar:
paid (marked by the reception of pay)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they freelance ... he / she / it freelances
Past simple: freelanced
Past participle: freelanced
-ing form: freelancing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "freelance" is one way to...):
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
free lance; free-lance; freelance (a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them)
freelance (working for yourself)
freelancer (a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them)
