freelance vs writer

freelance

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

  • A medieval mercenary. 

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

verb
  • To produce or sell services as a freelance. 

  • To work as a freelance. 

writer

noun
  • The seller of an option. 

  • An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns. 

  • A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship. 

  • A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. 

  • A graffiti artist. 

  • A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themself as "the writer". 

  • Anything that writes or produces output. 

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