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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: free lance 'soldier in former times who sold his fighting skills to anyone'

freelance

 adjective, adverb
     
Related topics: Conditions of Employment
free‧lance
BEC working independently for different companies rather than being employed by one particular company:
She works freelance from home.
—freelance verb [intransitive]
He's freelancing for several translation agencies.
—freelance also freelancer noun [countable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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