0 someone who is not employed by any one organization but does particular pieces of work for different organizations:
1 someone who works on different projects with different companies instead of being a company employee:
World Press relies on its web of freelancers from approximately 40 countries.
I'm an awful artist and I may need to hire a freelancer to help with the poster.
The pianist has been working for almost five decades, most of those years as a freelance.
What sometimes happens is management cut back on staff numbers while the number of freelances goes through the roof.
It could label the freelancer as out-of-touch and ' backward ', and lead to diminishing work.
For older freelancers, then, the occupation was found to be an increasingly strenuous and compromised endeavour, and it was undertaken for ever-diminishing returns.
Older freelancers, like their younger counterparts, were engaged in relentless negotiation in order to survive the uncertainties of a flexible labour market.
The older, experienced freelancers in the study were aware that they could be more expensive than their younger counterparts.
