noun
- A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them.
- synonyms: freelancer, freelance, free lance, independent, self-employed person
adjective
- Working for yourself.
- synonyms: freelance, self-employed
- Serving for wages in a foreign army.
- usage: "mercenary killers"
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