free-lance

基本解释

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，因为他们付费给自由投稿的专家。
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，我在低矮的帐篷里梳理着头发，另一个北美人，一位来自曼哈顿的自由作家，正在轻声说话。
Like anyone looking for free-lance work, getting your name out there is an important way to drum up business.
和所有找兼职工作的人一样，扬名是推动业务增长的一个重要途径。

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.