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freelance

/free-lans, -lahns, -lans, -lahns/US // ˈfriˌlæns, -ˌlɑns, -ˈlæns, -ˈlɑns //UK // (ˈfriːˌlɑːns) //

自由职业者,自由职业,从事自由职业,自由执业者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    Also free lance .

    • : Also free·lanc·er, free-lanc·er . a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
    • : a person who contends in a cause or in a succession of various causes, as he or she chooses, without personal attachment or allegiance.
v.无主动词 verb
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    free·lanced, free·lanc·ing.

    • : to act or work as a freelance: The illustrator used to be employed by us but is freelancing now.
v.有主动词 verb
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    free·lanced, free·lanc·ing.

    • : to produce, sell, or accomplish as a freelance: to freelance a magazine article.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : of or relating to a freelance or the work of a freelance: a freelance writer; freelance copyediting.
adv.副词 adverb
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    • : in the manner of a freelance: She works freelance.

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Examples

  • Abigail Higgins is a freelance journalist in Washington who covers gender, health and inequality.

  • Lauren Wolfe made no ripples last May when she started as a freelance editor at the New York Times.

  • Look, I’d much rather be doing the work that I’m currently doing than waiting tables, even though there are times as a freelance journalist, where my income has been about comparable to what it was waiting tables.

  • Derek Swinhart is a freelance writer working in the PC hardware industry.

  • Erick Trickey is a Boston-based freelance writer who teaches magazine journalism at Boston University.

  • Freelance journalist Austin Tice was abducted in Syria more than two years ago.

  • He was a former bodyguard for Aung San Suu Kyi and a prominent freelance reporter.

  • The Herald asked her to be a freelance reporter, but not because of her notorious status.

  • Lottie Joiner is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer and senior editor of The Crisis magazine.

  • He now lives in Seoul, where he teaches at Hongik University and also works as a freelance fashion photographer.

  • Mom's a freelance relocation specialist who helps British people get settled in in San Francisco.

  • Denis, a Democrat at heart, was something of a freelance, inclined to tilt indiscriminately at both parties.

  • The thing that I should now most like to be is a freelance writer.

  • As I get it, he is a sort of freelance writer, and I think he was on an assignment then.

  • She could be a freelance in Love's lists, notwithstanding the inconvenience of a legal attachment.