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free-lance

free-lance is the alternative form of freelance.

Meaning of freelance

Adjective

freelance (comparative more freelance, superlative most freelance)

  1. Of or relating to a freelance; without a long-term employment contract.
    • He was a freelance writer for several magazines.

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Questions about free-lance

What is free-lance the alternative form of?
Free-lance is the alternative form of freelance.

Words near free-lance in the dictionary

  1. free-hanging
  2. free-hearted
  3. free-heartedly
  4. free-heartedness
  5. free-heel skiing
  6. free-lance
  7. free-liver
  8. free-livers
  9. free-living
  10. free-loader
  11. free-loaders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: free-lance (page history and authors); freelance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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