free-lance

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Noun1.free-lance - a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
free lance, freelance, freelancer, self-employed person, independent
worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
Adj.1.free-lance - working for yourself
freelance, self-employed
2.free-lance - serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"
freelance, mercenary
paid - marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check"
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She was a free-lance typewriter and canvassed for odd jobs of copying.
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We are free-lances. Mind, I still believe that in the end German progress and German culture will dominate the world, but it may not be in our day.
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There are free-lances, you know, who earn as much as four or five hundred a month.
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In June, an ISIS fighter allegedly shot dead free-lance reporter Khaled al-Zantani in Benghazi.
Libya - Freedom Of Speech & Expression
The highest relative share was reported for income from wages (54.1%), followed by pensions (28.3%), free-lance activities (6.5%) and social benefits (3.2%), announced NSI.
Total Expenses Per Person in Household BGN 1,223 for Q3 2016
The Free-Lance Star reported out of Fredericksburg, Virginia, on May 14 about a Virginia Court of Appeals judge who nearly killed a trespasser on April 1.
Judge comes close to shooting trespasser
Those reading excerpts from Dickens' holiday classic will be WCRN radio host Sherman Whitman, free-lance writer Courtney Little, and poets Lea C.
'Carol' reading
Typically, a Patch site consists of one person who is a combination reporter-editor-blogger, who is supposed to coordinate mostly unpaid free-lance contributors, covering everything from city councils to water boards to high-school sports.
HUFFPOST ADDS LOCAL SITES; WITHER PATCH?
Free-lance spiritual seekers: Self-growth or compensatory motives?
Mental health, Religion & Culture
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