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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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