noun
Meaning 1
Someone who freelances.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
freelancer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.lɑːn.sə/
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General-American: /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/
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rhymes with -iːlɑːnsə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
One who performs duties outside of the chain of command and SOPs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: emergency-medicine, firefighting, government, law-enforcement, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: freelance, free-lance, free lance, independent, self-employed person
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: worker
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English freelance Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English freelancer From freelance + -er.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ֆրիլանսեր (frilanser) — who freelances
- Chinese Mandarin: 自由職業者 /自由职业者 (zìyóuzhíyèzhě) — who freelances
- Dutch: freelancer — who freelances
- Estonian: vabakutseline — who freelances
- Finnish: freelancer — who freelances
- Finnish: ammatinharjoittaja — who freelances
- Finnish: vapaa toimittaja — who freelances
- French: travailleur indépendant — who freelances
- Galician: autónomo — who freelances
- Galician: autónoma — who freelances
- Georgian: ფრილანსერი (prilanseri) — who freelances
- German: Freiberufler — who freelances
- German: freier Mitarbeiter — who freelances
- German: Selbstständiger — who freelances
- German: Selbstständige — who freelances
- Greek: ελευθεροεπαγγελματίας (eleftheroepangelmatías) — who freelances
- Hungarian: szabadúszó — who freelances
- Indonesian: pekerja lepas — who freelances
- Italian: battitore libero — who freelances
- Italian: libero professionista — who freelances
- Italian: collaboratore — who freelances
- Japanese: フリーランサー (furīransā) — who freelances
- Korean: 프리랜서 (peuriraenseo) — who freelances
- Norwegian: frilanser — who freelances
- Persian: کارمزد (kârmozd) — who freelances
- Polish: freelancer — who freelances
- Portuguese: freelancer — who freelances
- Portuguese: autônomo — who freelances
- Russian: фрила́нсер (frilánsɛr) — who freelances
- Russian: свобо́дный худо́жник (svobódnyj xudóžnik) — who freelances
- Spanish: freelancer — who freelances
- Spanish: free-lancer — who freelances
- Spanish: free lancer — who freelances
- Spanish: trabajador independiente — who freelances
- Spanish: autónomo — who freelances
- Spanish: laburante autónomo — who freelances
- Spanish: currante por libre — who freelances
- Spanish: currito por cuenta propia — who freelances
- Swedish: frilans — who freelances
- Swedish: frilansare — who freelances
- Ukrainian: фрілансер (frilanser) — who freelances