0 present participle of freelance
1 to do pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization:
Among the older freelancers involved in this study, a number of barriers to continued freelancing were identified.
The uncertainties and insecurities of freelancing continued whatever a person's age or experience.
In practice, however, freelancing was rarely the harmonious and liberating form of work that is often depicted.
They saw freelancing as the medium by which they might control the nature and timing of their exit from the labour market.
Freelancing was a precarious and inherently risky form of employment for all freelancers, but the risks were experienced unequally.
There were strong preferences for freelancing as a final but indefinite phase of work.
Freelancing did deliver a measure of empowerment to the older individuals in this study.
The second source is in-depth face-to-face interviews with 51 people involved in the day-today practice of freelancing.
