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Meanings of free-lance in English

Portuguese
free-lancer
Catalan
autònom
Spanish
autónomo

A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them.

free-lancer
Portuguese
autónomo
Catalan
freelance
Spanish
independiente

Working for yourself.

autónomo

Serving for wages in a foreign army.

Usage of free-lance in English
1
There was no problem getting the free-lance Negro bankers out of business.
The Godfather
2
Milo and Sam and the others like them kept hunting free-lance overseas.
Monster Hunter International
3
He moved to N.Y. doing free-lance illustrations for book and magazine publishers.
The new yorker
4
I am scarcely more than a free-lance who has had his blessing.
Oddsfish!
5
Mr. D. is an Englishman, who has been a free-lance film director.
The new yorker
6
And I can't spare the money to go over as a free-lance.
The Beautiful and Damned
7
Conversation with a couple of free-lance writers who were in the library.
The new yorker
8
Then he went on, hard-faced, So now you're a free-lance muscle boy.
Talk of the town
9
Campbell, a free-lance artist, is divorced from William Campbell, a television producer.
The sinatra files: the secret fbi dossier
10
Alex began his full time free-lance career as a 'Provider of Information'.
Terminal Compromise
11
It was all very well when you were quite a free-lance-butnow-Oh
The Marriage of William Ashe
12
However, there are many ups and downs in the trade of free-lance writer.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
13
None of the gang was permitted the liberty of a free-lance.
A Book of Scoundrels
14
But finance was by no means the only subject of this terrible free-lance.
The Grand Old Man / Or, the Life and Public Services of the Righ...
15
Prescott's client plans to live off other assets and some modest free-lance income.
Reuters
16
I am a Cornell DU now making my living as a free-lance writer.
Cat’s Cradle
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