freelancer

noun

free·lanc·er ˈfrē-ˌlan(t)-sər

plural freelancers

: a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer : freelance sense 1

hired a freelancer to write the article

… there were hundreds of photographers on the scene, some on assignment, some freelancers, most of them amateurs.—

Garrison Keillor

But while Renzo is the ultimate company man, a lifetime employee who reports to the same office every morning, Riccardo is the prototypical freelancer, a peripatetic problem-solver with five-dozen clients.—

Bruce Schoenfeld

: a person who acts independently without being affiliated with or authorized by an organization : freelance sense 2b

[Anthony] Grafton contrasts public intellectuals outside and inside the universities, and he takes note of today's nostalgia for the freethinkers who lived and wrote independently of deans and classrooms. But it is good to be reminded that in that golden era of freelancers such as Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Mary McCarthy, voices like theirs were also raised in universities.—

G. W. Bowersock

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The law gives freelancers greater ability to enforce their rights if rules are not complied with. —

Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025 Petr Marek, founder and CEO of Invoice Home, an invoice-generating platform designed for small businesses, freelancers and entrepreneurs. —

Petr Marek, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 Roger Catlin | | READ MORE Washington, D.C. freelancer Roger Catlin has written about the arts for AARP The Magazine, The Washington Post and other outlets. —

Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024 The complaint by the NLRB, an independent US government agency tasked with protecting workers' rights, demands that reality stars be regarded as employees rather than freelancers or participants. —

Abby Wilson, theweek, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for freelancer