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Freelance vs Temp - What's the difference?

freelance | temp |

As nouns the difference between freelance and temp

is that freelance is someone who sells his services to employers without a long-term contract while temp is time.

As an adjective freelance

is of, or relating to a freelance; without contract.

As a verb freelance

is to work as a freelance.

freelance

English

Alternative forms

* free-lance

Noun

(wikipedia freelance) (en noun)
  • Someone who sells his services to employers without a long-term contract
  • A medieval mercenary

    • Synonyms

    * (medieval mercenary) see

    Derived terms

    * freelancer

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to a freelance; without contract
    • He was a freelance writer for several magazines.

    Verb

    (freelanc)
  • To work as a freelance
  • To produce or sell services as a freelance

    • temp

    English

    (wikipedia temp)

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • temperature
  • temporary

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a temporary employee, usually in an office
  • (computing, informal, mostly, attributive) a temporary storage location
  • * 2001 , John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware
    • Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.
  • * 2014 , Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers (page 162)
    • That is, r -values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To work as a temporary employee.
  • * 2007 , , 01:24:50
  • *:--I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.