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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freelance
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a freelance writer
▪ She now works as a freelance writer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
journalist
▪ Mr Wettingfeld is a freelance journalist.
writer
▪ The author, a freelance writer living in Paris, becomes fascinated by the piano shop in his quartier.
▪ Examiner contributor Robert Kerwin is a freelance writer in San Francisco.
▪ Maria del Nevo is a freelance writer who has lived and worked in Lahore.
▪ Brian Beffort is a freelance writer who lives, and skis, at Lake Tahoe.
▪ Deborah Benady, freelance writer and single mum Being female helps with mothering, but it is not enough.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a freelance journalist
▪ Jamie's trying to earn a living as a freelance photographer.
▪ Karen stayed at home while the children were small, and made a little money from freelance writing.
▪ Steve plans to start working freelance this year.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freelance

Freelance \Free"lance`\ (fr[=e]"l[a^]ns`), a. of or pertaining to a freelance[2]; as, a freelance photographer.

Freelance

Freelance \Free"lance`\ (fr[=e]"l[a^]ns`), n.

  1. a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.

  2. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freelance

1902, from freelance (n.). Related: Freelancer (1898); freelanced; freelancing.

Wiktionary
freelance
  1. Of, or relating to a freelance; without contract n. 1 Someone who sells his services to employers without a long-term contract 2 A medieval mercenary v

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

WordNet
freelance
  1. adj. working for yourself [syn: self-employed] [ant: salaried]

  2. used of soldiers hired by a foreign army [syn: mercenary(a), freelance(a)]

  3. n. a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them [syn: independent, self-employed person]

Wikipedia
Freelance (disambiguation)

Freelance or Freelancer may refer to:

Workforce-related
  • Freelancer, a person who pursues an occupation without a long-term commitment to any particular employer
  • Freelance marketplace, a website that matches buyers and sellers of internet-provided services
  • Freelancers Union, a non-profit organization represents the needs and concerns of the independent workforce
  • Freelancer.com, a freelancer marketplace website
Film, and other media
  • Freelance Samurai, a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kenji Misumi
  • Freelance (1971 film), a 1971 film starring Ian McShane
  • Freelance (2007 film), a 2007 low-budget independent film directed by Drew Sawyer
  • Freelancers (2012 film), a 2012 crime-drama film starring 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, and Robert De Niro.
  • Freelancer (video game), a space simulation video game
  • Sam & Max: Freelance Police, a graphic adventure computer game developed by LucasArts
  • Cowboy Bebop Remixes: Music for Freelance, a collection of songs by The Seatbelts
In fiction
  • Freelance (the Photographer), a James Bond henchman
  • Sluggy Freelance, a webcomic written and drawn by Pete Abrams
People
  • The Freelance Hairdresser, a pseudonym of DJ, producer and composer Soundhog
  • The Freelance Hellraiser, nickname of Roy Kerr, one of the creators of the UK bootleg scene
  • The Sacramento Freelancers, a former drum and bugle corps from Sacramento, California.
Other
  • IBM Lotus Freelance Graphics, an information graphics and presentation program developed by Lotus Software
  • Freelance model, a vehicle model not based on an existing vehicle
  • NAC Freelance, a British four-seat touring monoplane.
Freelance (2007 film)

FreeLance is a 2007 low-budget independent film directed by Drew Sawyer and written by Sean Mann and Drew Sawyer. It was filmed in Rome, Georgia and premiered at the Rome International Film Festival. Later that year, it showed at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.

Freelance (1971 film)

Freelance (US title: Con Man) is a 1971 British thriller film starring Ian McShane. It was written and directed by Francis Megahy.

Usage examples of "freelance".

About three hours ago I had the senior priests of three of the major religions in this office, along with a rather bewildered freelance priestess who I gather handles the worldly affairs of Anoia on an agency basis.

Murphy was a NASA astrophysicist until 1998, when he left the space agency to become a freelance writer.

John Bushland freelanced for the newspaper but also had his own commercial studio in Pickax, and Qwilleran found him there, early Wednesday morning.

Ann Cymba is a freelance writer, history teacher, gardner, web designer, and parent living near the Arizona desert.

If some modern-day freelance Danite was behind all this, Robin Torr wanted nothing to do with it.

CIA picked a freelance gemologist who just happened to know the key figure in this mission.

The family stayed independent, selling information when our funds ran low, reinvesting in data from freelance expeditions to the Horsehead and Lesser Magellan.

Marissa Lingen is a freelance writer living in Minnesota after a four-year exile to California.

So Meeker stays in New York drawing for the last of the pulps and the burgeoning paperback market, then later moves out to California to freelance.

A man with an ugly black beard, wearing the uniform of a freelance soldier, entered, and Rhes flexed his fingers and stepped forward.

Umbrage was a freelance at that time, and stumbled upon the sight of a beardless youth defending himself as best he could against a pack of brutes and thieves.

He admitted admiring and envying the skill of the freelance deckers like Dodger.

See if there are any gunmen after being released from Portlaoise prison this last while, any fellas that ever did freelance stuff.

I do a little freelancing myself, like when I need another Cadillac or something.

Then he had another thought: Suppose Mcnair was freelancing and had gone directly after Jack Sherman.