'Free lance' definitions:
Definition of 'free lance'
From: WordNet
noun
A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them [syn: freelancer, freelance, free-lance, free lance, independent, self-employed person]
Definition of 'Free lance'
From: GCIDE
- Lance \Lance\ (l[a^]ns), n. [OE. lance, F. lance, fr. L. lancea; cf. Gr. lo`gchh. Cf. Launch.]
- 1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. [1913 Webster]
- A braver soldier never couched lance. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mil.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Pyrotech.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Med.) A lancet. [PJC]
- Free lance, in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his own responsibility without regard to party lines or deference to authority. See also freelance, n. and a., and freelancer.
- Lance bucket (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance.
- Lance corporal, same as Lancepesade.
- Lance knight, a lansquenet. --B. Jonson.
- Lance snake (Zool.), the fer-de-lance.
- Stink-fire lance (Mil.), a kind of fuse filled with a composition which burns with a suffocating odor; -- used in the counter operations of miners.
- To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'free lance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adventurer,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- ask no favors,
- ask no quarter,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- blue-collar worker,
- breadwinner,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- coauthor,
- collaborate,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- common laborer,
- compiler,
- compose,
- composer,
- condottiere,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- dash off,
- day laborer,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editorialize,
- employee,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- factory worker,
- flunky,
- formulate,
- free spirit,
- free trader,
- free-lance writer,
- free-lancer,
- freethinker,
- full-time worker,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- go it alone,
- gun,
- gunman,
- hand,
- hired gun,
- hired killer,
- hireling,
- humorist,
- independent,
- indite,
- inditer,
- individualist,
- industrial worker,
- isolationist,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- latitudinarian,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- menial,
- mercenary,
- migrant,
- moiler,
- monographer,
- mugwump,
- music critic,
- navvy,
- neutral,
- newspaperman,
- nonpartisan,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- novelize,
- office temporary,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prepare,
- produce,
- professional killer,
- proletarian,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- roustabout,
- rugged individualist,
- salaried worker,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scenarize,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- self-employed person,
- servant,
- short-story writer,
- soldier of fortune,
- stiff,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- temporary,
- third force,
- third world,
- throw on paper,
- toiler,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman,
- write,
- writer