different between freelance vs indpendent

English

Alternative forms

• free-lance

Etymology

From free +? lance. Coined by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Ivanhoe (1820) to describe a medieval mercenary warrior or "free-lance" (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services). It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary. In modern times the term has morphed into an adjective, a verb, and an adverb, as well as the derivative noun freelancer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?i?l??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?i?læns/

Noun

freelance (plural freelances)

1. Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
   • 2014, Brian Mossop, Revising and Editing for Translators (page 192)

     The person you are revising (the revisee) is a colleague at your own rank, or another freelance.

2. (historical) A medieval mercenary.

Synonyms

• (medieval mercenary): see Thesaurus:mercenary

Derived terms

• freelancer

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

freelance (comparative more freelance, superlative most freelance)

1. Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.

   He was a freelance writer for several magazines.

Translations

Verb

freelance (third-person singular simple present freelances, present participle freelancing, simple past and past participle freelanced)

1. (intransitive) To work as a freelance.
2. (transitive) To produce or sell services as a freelance.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

English freelance

Noun

freelance

1. (rare) Synonym of freelancer (“freelancer”)
2. (as modifier) freelance

Declension

Compounds

• freelancenäyttelijä
• freelancetoimittaja
• freelancetyö
• freelancetyöntekijä

Spanish

Adjective

freelance (invariable)

1. freelance

Noun

freelance m (plural freelances)

1. freelancer

French

Adjective

freelance (plural freelances)

1. freelance

Noun

freelance m or f (plural freelances)

1. freelance