What is "free-lance"

Usage examples of "free-lance".

Free-lance scribes, both Babylonian and Egyptian, squatted near the gateway.

I asked myself whether I was to remember that I was a free-lance of love, or whether honour bade me forget it.

An' the papers'll scream it all over the sky, and make cracks about us being such bum policemen that we have to let some free-lance vigilante do a job for us that we haven't got the brains or the guts to do.

But the rest, the neighborhood Black Hand terrorists, the free-lance shylocks, the strong-arm bookmakers operating without the proper, that is to say paid, protection of the legal authorities, would have to go.

What I would like to say to him is: "Listen, you cheesehead, when we were both free-lance writers I had a much higher reputation than you had-in fact you never wrote a number-one science fiction story in your life-so who in hell do you think you are to be 'improving' my copy!

Thus the main character of this novel is Tale Teller, who today would be called a free-lance writer, with an incapacity of the arm similar to what I experienced during my bout with cat scratch fever and later with tenonitis.

And in his spare time he cut hay and sold it and worked at the church and free-lance drove the bookmobile, and in the evenings, after a hard day of public service, he read child pornography with a young boys underwear stretched over his head.

I've been free-lancing since then in the middle section of the river operating from Colona about four hundred miles from here.

A known free-lance spine cracker and debt collector who enjoyed his work.

In North Fork he'd found work as a free-lance engineer, but with eleven thousand inhabitants, North Fork was an important regional center.

Desmond Hawkins (1908- ), novelist, literary critic and broadcaster, who did much free-lance work with the Indian Service of the B.

At any rate it is a big industry in the West, a money tree for a lot of people including the foremen and the skilled heavy-equipment operators who make up the construction elite -- and a massive source of both hope and frustration to the boomers, drifters, and other free-lance laborers who go high on the hog when they get hired, and live like hobos when they don't.

She rehearsed her story again in her mind: she was a free-lance journalist, writing a piece on the country's pearl divers.

A free-lance writer, she struggled over a typewriter for many years and was just reaching the tier where rejection letters were war stories from the past.

I am only a junior free-lance research worker for one of the Pursuivants.