freelance

8 definitions • 10 examples

doing particular pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization:

Most of the journalists I know are/work freelance.

a freelance artist

someone who does particular pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization:

The firm employs several freelances.

to do pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization:

I would rather freelance from home than work in an office.

working independently usually for various organizations rather than as an employee of a particular one:

a freelance musician/photographer/writer

if you work freelance, you work for yourself and do projects with different companies rather than being a company employee:

She set up her own editorial business and now works freelance from home.

After ten years in corporate advertising he decided to go freelance.

used to describe a freelancer or the work done by a freelancer:

a freelance writer/journalist/designer

freelance work/job/contract She took on several freelance writing jobs before landing a full-time position at the newspaper.

to work for yourself and do projects with different companies rather than being a company employee:

freelance for/with sb Jones continues to freelance for the radio station despite officially retiring two years ago.

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