Freelance vs Volunteer - What's the difference?
freelance | volunteer |
Someone who sells his services to employers without a long-term contract
A medieval mercenary
Of, or relating to a freelance; without contract
To work as a freelance
To produce or sell services as a freelance
One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.
(label) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
(label) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
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A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
(label) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
(label) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
(label) To offer.
To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
In intransitive terms the difference between freelance and volunteer
is that freelance is to work as a freelance while volunteer is to enlist oneself as a volunteer.In transitive terms the difference between freelance and volunteer
is that freelance is to produce or sell services as a freelance while volunteer is to offer.As an adjective freelance
is of, or relating to a freelance; without contract.freelance
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Alternative forms
* free-lanceNoun
(wikipedia freelance) (en noun)Synonyms
* (medieval mercenary) seeDerived terms
* freelancerAdjective
(en adjective)- He was a freelance writer for several magazines.
Verb
(freelanc)volunteer
English
(wikipedia volunteer)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to volunteer for doing the dishes
- to volunteer an explanation
- My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.