free lance

1. 1.

   a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

   Synonymsfreelancerfreelancefree-lanceindependentself-employed person

   Broaderworker

Questions about free lance

What does free lance mean?

free lance means "a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them".

What is another word for free lance?

Close synonyms include freelancer, freelance, free-lance, independent, self-employed person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is free lance a common word?

free lance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.