freelance

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɹiːlɑːns/
• (America) IPA: /ˈfɹiˌlæns/

Noun

freelance (plural freelances)

1. Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
   • 2014, Brian Mossop, Revising and Editing for Translators (page 192)

     The person you are revising (the revisee) is a colleague at your own rank, or another freelance.

2. (historical) A medieval mercenary.

Synonyms

• (medieval mercenary) see Thesaurus:mercenary

Translations

• French: pigiste, freelance
• German: freier Mitarbeiter
• Italian: collaboratore esterno, freelance
• Spanish: trabajador autónomo, freelance

Translations

• French: mercenaire
• Italian: mercenario

Adjective

freelance

1. Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.

   He was a freelance writer for several magazines.

Translations

• French: à la pige, indépendant
• Spanish: freelance

Verb

freelance (freelances, present participle freelancing; past and past participle freelanced)

1. (intransitive) To work as a freelance.
2. (transitive) To produce or sell services as a freelance.

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