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- noun a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
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synonyms (138)
Words with the same meaning
- adventurer
- advertising writer
- annalist
- art critic
- ask no favors
- ask no quarter
- author
- authoress
- belletrist
- bibliographer
- blue-collar worker
- breadwinner
- casual
- casual laborer
- coauthor
- collaborate
- collaborator
- columnist
- common laborer
- compiler
- compose
- composer
- condottiere
- copywriter
- creative writer
- critic
- dance critic
- dash off
- day laborer
- diarist
- drama critic
- dramatist
- editorialize
- employee
- encyclopedist
- essayist
- factory worker
- flunky
- formulate
- free spirit
- free trader
- free-lance writer
- free-lancer
- freethinker
- full-time worker
- ghost
- ghostwrite
- ghostwriter
- go it alone
- gun
- gunman
- hand
- hired gun
- hired killer
- hireling
- humorist
- independent
- indite
- inditer
- individualist
- industrial worker
- isolationist
- jobber
- jobholder
- knock off
- knock out
- laborer
- laboring man
- latitudinarian
- liberal
- libertarian
- libertine
- literary artist
- literary craftsman
- literary critic
- literary man
- litterateur
- logographer
- magazine writer
- man of letters
- menial
- mercenary
- migrant
- moiler
- monographer
- mugwump
- music critic
- navvy
- neutral
- newspaperman
- nonpartisan
- novelettist
- novelist
- novelize
- office temporary
- pamphleteer
- penwoman
- poet
- prepare
- produce
- professional killer
- proletarian
- prose writer
- reviewer
- roustabout
- rugged individualist
- salaried worker
- scenario writer
- scenarist
- scenarize
- scribe
- scriptwriter
- self-employed person
- servant
- short-story writer
- soldier of fortune
- stiff
- storyteller
- technical writer
- temporary
- third force
- third world
- throw on paper
- toiler
- wage earner
- wage slave
- wageworker
- word painter
- wordsmith
- worker
- workgirl
- workhand
- working girl
- workingman
- workingwoman
- workman
- write
- writer
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