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be freelance
noun
Someone who sells his services to employers without a long-term contract.
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It takes a certain type of character to be freelance.
But no doubt, I would still be freelance editing and writing.
"It seemed I could either have a job, which would give me structure and community," he said, "or I could be freelance and have freedom and independence.
"Not all students will want to start their own business, but many will be freelance and some will have portfolio careers [someone who moves around between different industries]," he says.
The BBC's director of sport, Barbara Slater, also pointed out that about 70% of the BBC's personnel would be freelance, "part of the BBC's commitment to supporting production talent across the UK media industry".
In our own age we've seen the rise of the so-called "precariat": in the US (on which Saval focuses), between a quarter and a third of the workforce is now estimated to be freelance.
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He won't be freelancing on Thursday night".
Obviously, I'm freelance now.
"They are freelance killers".
My favorites are Freelance.
Laura Buckler is freelance writer and journalist.
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