freelance
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Etymology[edit]
From free + lance. Coined by Sir 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/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiˌlæns/
Noun[edit]
freelance (plural freelances)
- Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
- 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[1]:
- 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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Noun[edit]
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 | |
instructive | — | freelancein | |
abessive | freelancetta | freelanceitta | |
comitative | — | freelanceineen |
Possessive forms of freelance (type nalle) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | freelanceni | freelancemme |
2nd person | freelancesi | freelancenne |
3rd person | freelancensa |
Compounds[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
freelance (invariable)
Noun[edit]
freelance m (plural freelances)
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