Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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free-lance | Yes | Yes | No | No |
independent | Yes | Yes | No | No |
free-lance (noun) | independent (noun) |
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a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them |
a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) |
free-lance (adjective) | independent (adjective) |
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working for yourself | free from external control and constraint |
serving for wages in a foreign army | (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence |
(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | |
not controlled by a party or interest group |