alien vs freelance

alien

noun
  • A foreigner residing in a country. 

  • Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. 

  • A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. 

  • One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged. 

verb
  • To estrange; to alienate. 

  • To transfer the ownership of something. 

adj
  • Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign. 

  • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. 

  • Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature. 

freelance

noun
  • A medieval mercenary. 

  • Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract. 

verb
  • To produce or sell services as a freelance. 

  • To work as a freelance. 

adj
  • Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract. 

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