Definition of "freelance" []

• A person who sells services to employers without a long-term commitment to any of them. (noun)
• An uncommitted independent, as in politics or social life. (noun)
• A medieval mercenary. (noun)
• To work as a freelance: a journalist who freelances. (verb-intransitive)
• To produce and sell as a freelance: freelanced the article to a magazine publisher. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Today Isaac serves as what he calls a "freelance" advocate for the homeless, the abused and the incarcerated."
• "In Japan, they are freeters: an amalgam of the English word freelance and the German word Arbeiter, or worker."
• "But unfortunately for her, the only things she's good at is talking in freelance so maybe she can get some help in Hong Kong when she's visiting."