freelance vs job

freelance

verb
  • To work as a freelance. 

  • To produce or sell services as a freelance. 

noun
  • A medieval mercenary. 

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

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

job

verb
  • To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. 

  • To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors. 

  • To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in. 

  • To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. 

  • To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. 

  • To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. 

  • To work as a jobber. 

  • To take the loss. 

  • To hire or let in periods of service. 

noun
  • A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall). 

  • A sex act. 

  • A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business. 

  • An economic role for which a person is paid. 

  • The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer. 

  • A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer). 

  • A task. 

  • A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. 

  • Plastic surgery. 

  • Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. 

How often have the words freelance and job occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )