freelance
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːlɑːns/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiˌlæns/
Noun[edit]
freelance (plural freelances)
- 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.
- (historical) A medieval mercenary.
Synonyms[edit]
- (medieval mercenary): see Thesaurus:mercenary
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Adjective[edit]
freelance (comparative more freelance, superlative most freelance)
- Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.
- He was a freelance writer for several magazines.
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Verb[edit]
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.
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Finnish[edit]
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freelance
- (rare) Synonym of freelancer (“freelancer”)
- (as modifier) freelance
- freelancetoimittaja ― freelance journalist
Declension[edit]
Inflection of freelance (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | ||
abessive | freelancetta | freelanceitta | ||
instructive | — | freelancein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading[edit]
- “freelance”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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Adjective[edit]
freelance (plural freelances)
Noun[edit]
freelance m or f by sense (plural freelances)
Spanish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
freelance (invariable)
Noun[edit]
freelance m (plural freelances)
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