Meaning & use
freelance designer
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Meaning
nouncountable
A designer who works for different clients rather than being employed by one company.
Grammar: Countable: a freelance designer, two freelance designers; also used before a noun as a job title.
Patterns
- work as a freelance designer
- hire a freelance designer
- a freelance designer for a company
She left the agency and now works as a freelance designer.
We hired a freelance designer to refresh our logo.
As a freelance designer, he sets his own hours but has no paid holiday.
Word forms
| plural | freelance designers |
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Common combinations
- work as a freelance designer
- After ten years in-house, he began working as a freelance designer.
- hire a freelance designer
- The startup hired a freelance designer for the launch campaign.
- a freelance designer for
- She is a freelance designer for several fashion labels.
- go freelance
- Many illustrators go freelance after a few years in a studio.
Synonyms and how they differ
- independent designer
- Sounds more formal and stresses independence rather than the short-term contract basis.
- contract designer
- Focuses on the contract; a contract designer may work full-time for one client for a fixed period.
Opposites
Word family
- freelance adjective
- Working for yourself for different clients.
- freelancer noun
- Any self-employed person who takes work from different clients.
- freelancing noun
- The activity of working as a freelancer.
Commonly confused: freelance designer or freelance?
freelance designer vs freelance
'Freelance' alone can be an adjective, adverb, or verb; 'freelance designer' is the full job name.
Practice
He doesn't have a permanent employer; he works ______ a freelance designer.
Choose one answer.
'Work as' is used before a job or role: work as a freelance designer. 'Work like' would mean he works in a similar way to one, not that he is one.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “freelance designer”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.