freelance
See also: free-lance
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From free + lance. Coined by Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Ivanhoe (1820) to describe a medieval mercenary warrior or "free-lance" (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services). It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary. In modern times the term has morphed into an adjective, a verb, and an adverb, as well as the derivative noun freelancer.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːlɑːns/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiˌlæns/
Noun
freelance (plural freelances)
- Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- The objector, one Millworthy, a free-lance of journalism, was not to be so easily silenced.
- 2014, Brian Mossop, Revising and Editing for Translators, page 192:
- The person you are revising (the revisee) is a colleague at your own rank, or another freelance.
- (historical) A medieval mercenary.
Synonyms
- (medieval mercenary): see Thesaurus:mercenary
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
one who sells their services to clients with short-term contracts
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medieval mercenary
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Adjective
freelance (comparative more freelance, superlative most freelance)
- Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.
- He was a freelance writer for several magazines.
Translations
Verb
freelance (third-person singular simple present freelances, present participle freelancing, simple past and past participle freelanced)
Translations
intransitive: to work as a freelance
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transitive: to produce or sell services as a freelance
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfriːlɑns/, [ˈfriːlɑ̝ns̠]
Noun
freelance
- (rare) Synonym of freelancer (“freelancer”)
- (as modifier) freelance
- freelancetoimittaja ― freelance journalist
Declension
| Inflection of freelance (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | freelance | freelancet | ||
| genitive | freelancen | freelancejen | ||
| partitive | freelancea | freelanceja | ||
| illative | freelanceen | freelanceihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | freelance | freelancet | ||
| accusative | nom. | freelance | freelancet | |
| gen. | freelancen | |||
| genitive | freelancen | freelancejen freelanceinrare | ||
| partitive | freelancea | freelanceja | ||
| inessive | freelancessa | freelanceissa | ||
| elative | freelancesta | freelanceista | ||
| illative | freelanceen | freelanceihin | ||
| adessive | freelancella | freelanceilla | ||
| ablative | freelancelta | freelanceilta | ||
| allative | freelancelle | freelanceille | ||
| essive | freelancena | freelanceina | ||
| translative | freelanceksi | freelanceiksi | ||
| abessive | freelancetta | freelanceitta | ||
| instructive | — | freelancein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “freelance”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁi.lɑ̃s/
Audio (file)
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