English Online Dictionary. What means freelance? What does freelance mean?
English
Alternative forms
- free-lance
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/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiˌlæns/
Noun
freelance (plural freelances)
- Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
- (historical) A medieval mercenary.
Synonyms
- (medieval mercenary): see Thesaurus:mercenary
Derived terms
- freelancer
Descendants
Translations
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)
- (intransitive) To work as a freelance.
- (transitive) To produce or sell services as a freelance.
Translations
Finnish
Etymology
English freelance
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfriːlɑns/, [ˈfriːlɑ̝ns̠]
Noun
freelance
- (rare) Synonym of freelancer (“freelancer”)
- (as modifier) freelance
- freelancetoimittaja ― freelance journalist
Declension
Compounds
- freelancenäyttelijä
- freelancetoimittaja
- freelancetyö
- freelancetyöntekijä
Further reading
- “freelance”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
Alternative forms
- free-lance
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁi.lɑ̃s/
Adjective
freelance (plural freelances)
- freelance
Noun
freelance m or f by sense (plural freelances)
- freelancer
Spanish
Adjective
freelance (invariable)
- freelance
Noun
freelance m (plural freelances)
- freelancer