According to Quora, “The term freelance (noun) was coined by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe (1820). It literally stands for a free lance, signifying a medieval mercenary whose lance is currently not engaged in war and therefore free for being dispatched.” So if you are a freelancer, you are sort of a hired gun, like Richard Boone was as Paladin in the 1957-1963 TV series Have Gun – ...
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