freelance

freelance

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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)

  1. Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
  2. (historical) A medieval mercenary.

Synonyms

  • (medieval mercenary): see Thesaurus:mercenary

Derived terms

  • freelancer

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

freelance (comparative more freelance, superlative most freelance)

  1. 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)

  1. (intransitive) To work as a freelance.
  2. (transitive) To produce or sell services as a freelance.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

English freelance

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfriːlɑns/, [ˈfriːlɑ̝ns̠]

Noun

freelance

  1. (rare) Synonym of freelancer (freelancer)
  2. (as modifier) freelance
    freelancetoimittajafreelance 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)

  1. freelance

Noun

freelance m or f by sense (plural freelances)

  1. freelancer

Spanish

Adjective

freelance (invariable)

  1. freelance

Noun

freelance m (plural freelances)

  1. freelancer

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