THESAURUS
free lance
adventurer, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, ask no favors, ask no quarter, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, coauthor, collaborate, collaborator, columnist, common laborer, compiler, compose, composer, condottiere, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, dash off, day laborer, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, editorialize, employee, encyclopedist, essayist, factory worker, flunky, formulate, free spirit, free trader, free-lance writer, free-lancer, freethinker, full-time worker, ghost, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, go it alone, gun, gunman, hand, hired gun, hired killer, hireling, humorist, independent, indite, inditer, individualist, industrial worker, isolationist, jobber, jobholder, knock off, knock out, laborer, laboring man, latitudinarian, liberal, libertarian, libertine, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, menial, mercenary, migrant, moiler, monographer, mugwump, music critic, navvy, neutral, newspaperman, nonpartisan, novelettist, novelist, novelize, office temporary, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prepare, produce, professional killer, proletarian, prose writer, reviewer, roustabout, rugged individualist, salaried worker, scenario writer, scenarist, scenarize, scribe, scriptwriter, self-employed person, servant, short-story writer, soldier of fortune, stiff, storyteller, technical writer, temporary, third force, third world, throw on paper, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, word painter, wordsmith, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, write, writer
ROGET THESAURUS
free lance
Combatant
N
combatant, disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent, competitor, rival, corrival, fighter, assailant, champion, Paladin, mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough, prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler, fighting-cock, game-cock, warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent, campaigner, veteran, swordsman, sabreur, redcoat, military man, Rajput, armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible, auxiliary, bersagliere, brave, garde-nationale, garde-royale, minuteman, auxiliary forces, reserve forces, reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater, guards, guardsman, yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops, janissary, myrmidon, Mama, Mameluke, spahee, spahi, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz, irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere, franctireur, tirailleur, bashi-bazouk, vietminh, vietcong, shining path, contras, huk, hukbalahap, mercenary, soldier of fortune, hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger, bushwhacker,
free lance, companion, Hessian, hit man torpedo, soldier, levy, draught, Landwehr, Landsturm, conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies, infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier, Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder, officer, subaltern, ensign, standard bearer, spearman, pikeman, spear bearer, halberdier, lancer, musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher, grenadier, fusileer, archer, bowman, horse and foot, horse soldier, cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar, light dragoon, heavy dragoon, heavy, cuirassier, Foot Guards, Horse Guards, gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman, matross, sapper, sapper and miner, engineer, light infantry, rifles, chasseur, zouave, military train, coolie, army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad, piquet, picket, guard, rank, file, legion, phalanx, cohort, cloud of skirmishers, war horse, charger, destrier, marine, man-of-war's man, navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron, man-of-war, destroyer, submarine, minesweeper, torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer, patrol torpedo boat, PT boat, torpedo- catcher, war castle, H, M, S, battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, helicopter carrier, missile platform, missile boat, ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery, first- rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel, flagship, guard ship, cruiser, armored cruiser, protected cruiser, privateer, tender, store ship, troop ship, transport, catamaran, merchant marine.
