freelance

Working for different customers without a permanent job with one employer.

• He is a freelance writer.
• She found some freelance work last month.
• Do you need a freelance photographer for the wedding?

Similar words: self-employed, independent

Common phrases: freelance writer, freelance work, freelance designer

To work for different customers without having a permanent job with one employer.

• I freelance from home.
• She freelanced for a magazine before joining our team.
• Would you like to freelance as a photographer?

How to use it: freelance for someone (She freelances for several newspapers.); freelance as something (He freelances as a web designer.)

Similar words: work independently

Common phrases: freelance for someone, freelance as something

A person who works for different customers without a permanent job with one employer.

• She works as a freelance.
• The newspaper hired two freelances to cover the event.
• As a freelance, he chooses which projects to accept.

Similar words: freelancer, independent contractor

Common phrases: a freelance, hire a freelance, experienced freelance