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

Noun

freelance (plural freelances)

  1. 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.
  2. (historical) A medieval mercenary.

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Derived terms

Descendants
Descendants of freelance in other languages

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.

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Finnish

Etymology

English freelance

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfriːlɑns/, [ˈfriːlɑns̠]

Noun

freelance

  1. (rare) Synonym of freelancer (“freelancer”)
  2. (as modifier) freelance
    freelancetoimittaja ― freelance journalist

Declension
Inflection of freelance (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
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
instructive — freelancein
abessive freelancetta freelanceitta
comitative — freelanceineen
Possessive forms of freelance (type nalle)
possessor singular plural
1st person freelanceni freelancemme
2nd person freelancesi freelancenne
3rd person freelancensa

Compounds

French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fʁi.lɑ̃s/
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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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