FREELANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freelance mean? 

• FREELANCE (noun)
  The noun FREELANCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FREELANCE used as a noun is very rare.

• FREELANCE (adjective)
  The adjective FREELANCE has 2 senses:

1. working for yourself

2. serving for wages in a foreign army

  Familiarity information: FREELANCE used as an adjective is rare.

• FREELANCE (verb)
  The verb FREELANCE has 1 sense:

1. work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

  Familiarity information: FREELANCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREELANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

free-lance; free lance; freelance; freelancer; independent; self-employed person

Hypernyms ("freelance" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Derivation:

freelance (work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer)

• FREELANCE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Working for yourself

Synonyms:

free-lance; freelance; self-employed

Antonym:

salaried (receiving a salary)

Derivation:

freelance (work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Serving for wages in a foreign army

Synonyms:

free-lance; freelance; mercenary

Context example:

mercenary killers

Similar:

paid (marked by the reception of pay)

• FREELANCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they freelance    ... he / she / it freelances   
Past simple: freelanced   
Past participle: freelanced   
-ing form: freelancing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "freelance" is one way to...):

do work; work (be employed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

free lance; free-lance; freelance (a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them)

freelance (working for yourself)

freelancer (a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them)