free: (fri), adjective.

1. provided without, or not subject to, a charge or payment: free parking; a free sample.

2. given without consideration of a return or reward: a free offer of legal advice.

lance: (læns), noun.

1. A long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.

2. an implement resembling the weapon, as a spear for killing a harpooned whale.

No discredit to the hundreds of thousands of talented people calling themselves freelancers, I’m just having fun with words. Although I do prefer describing myself as an independent contractor to avoid a term with the word “free” in it.