freelance

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfreelancerfree-lancefree lanceindependentself-employed person

   Broaderworker

1. 1.

   work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

   Broaderwork

Other forms of freelance

plural

freelances·

past tense

freelanced·

present participle

freelancing·

comparative

freelancer·

superlative

freelancest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about freelance

What does freelance mean?

freelance means "working for yourself". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in freelance?

freelance has 2 syllables: free-lance. The stress falls on "free". In IPA it is /ˈfɹiˌlæns/.

What is another word for freelance?

Close synonyms include free-lance, self-employed, mercenary, free-lance, freelancer. 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.

What is the opposite of freelance?

The recorded antonyms are salaried.

Is freelance a common word?

freelance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with freelance?

1 word rhymes with freelance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.