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Definition of Free-lance
1. Adjective. Working for yourself.
2. Noun. A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them.
Generic synonyms: Worker
Derivative terms: Freelance, Freelance, Freelance, Freelance
3. Adjective. Serving for wages in a foreign army. "Mercenary killers"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-lance
Literary usage of Free-lance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"Second Free Lance. " How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours
fall ! ... I yearn to breathe the airs of heaven Second Free Lance. ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"WILKINSON (WC), A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters. — »WOODBERRY "(GE),
Makers of Literature. TRIBUTES IN VERSE ALDRICH (Т. В.), Unguarded Gates ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"1901. free Lance, 13 Ap., 28, 2. " It is all very well," writes a traveller, "
to legislate with regard to pure beer, but WHAT PRICE pure wine T " PRICK (or ..."
4. Journalistic London: Being a Series of Sketches of Famous Pens and Papers of by Joseph Hatton (1882)
"... —A Free Lance in Journalism—Mr. Grenville-Murray—Truth's account of the Editor
of The Queen's Messenger—Diplomacy and Journalism— What might have been. ..."
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