free-lance

基本解釋

It’s a little more reliable than Wikipedia because they pay free-lance experts to write for them.
比Wikipedia的文章更可靠，因爲(wèi)他們付費(fèi)給自由投稿的專家。
Now, as I combed my hair in the little tent, another of the men, a free-lance writer from Manhattan, was talking quietly.
此刻，我在低矮的帳篷裡梳理著頭發(fā)，另一個(gè)北美人，一位來自曼哈頓的自由作家，正在輕聲說話。
Like anyone looking for free-lance work, getting your name out there is an important way to drum up business.
和所有找兼職工作的人一樣，敭名是推動(dòng)業(yè)務(wù)增長(zhǎng)的一個(gè)重要途逕。

Every military base is surrounded by brothels, porn shops, strip clubs, and free-lance hookers.
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My father and a friend, Nicholas Stroh, an heir to the Stroh Brewery in Detroit and a free-lance reporter, became suspicious of the gregarious general.
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Someone who does freelance work or who is, for example, a freelance journalist or photographer is not employed by one organization, but is paid for each piece of work they do by the organization they do it for.
Freelance is also an adverb.