freelance
意味
- 自由契約者(専属でない自由契約の寄稿家・記者・芸術家・俳優など)
- 自由契約者として働く
- (仕事などが)自由契約の
例文
Tom used to be a freelance photographer.
トムは以前、フリーランスの写真家だった。
More and more people are working as freelance IT-engineers.
フリーランスのITエンジニアとして働く人も増えている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From free + lance. Coined by Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Ivanhoe (1819; see quotation) to describe a medieval mercenary warrior or "free-lance" (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services). It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary. In modern times the term has morphed into an adjective, a verb, and an adverb, as well as the derivative noun freelancer.