Synonyms of the word

freelance

• n. Someone who sells his services to employers without a long-term contract.
• n. A medieval mercenary.
• adj. Of, or relating to a freelance; without contract.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a freelance.
• v. (transitive) To produce or sell services as a freelance.

independent

• adj. not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
• adj. (politics) not affiliated with any political party.
• adj. Providing a comfortable livelihood.
• adj. Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
• adj. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
• n. A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.
• n. A neutral or uncommitted person.
• n. (sports) A team not affiliated with any league or conference.

mercenary

• n. (archaic) One motivated by gain, especially monetary.
• n. A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for…
• n. (figuratively) One hired to engage in a figurative battle, as a corporate takeover, a lawsuit, or a political…
• adj. Motivated by private gain.

paid

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pay.

self-employed

• adj. Working for oneself, rather than for an employer.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

worker

• n. A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.
• n. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
• n. (computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.