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free agent

Person who is not under permanent contract of employment but operates independently.

Fast Company is among a number of publications that has documented the rise of the ‘free agent nation’. The downsizing and delayering of the late 1980s and early 1990s led to a shift from ‘job for life’ permanent employment contracts to a situation where many individuals act as free agents, taking their skills and services from one corporation to another. The term free agent encompasses the self-employed, independent contractors and temporary workers employed through agencies.



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Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
Tomorrow I shall start afresh--today I am a free agent for the first time in my life.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
I should think you could be trained into a very good husband--you know, not one of the domineering kind, but one who considered his wife was just as much an individual as himself and just as much a free agent.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
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