Definitions
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- noun An
employee who was originally hired on afreelance basis (on a fixed-termcontract ) but has becomepermanent (but not necessarily with the same benefits as a full-time employee)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Perhaps Not: A question for a servicey type: if, hypothetically, I was a "permalancer" - someone who had been employed by a ...
Gawker 2009
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The Perhaps Not: A question for a servicey type: if, hypothetically, I was a "permalancer" - someone who had been employed by a ...
Gawker 2009
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Working in TV as a 'permalancer' for three years meant days off came out of my paycheck.
Piper Weiss: How I Found Out I Lost My Job At Cocktail Weekly 2008
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Amy is from Oakland via Texas and a "permalancer" for Old Navy.
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Census workers like Sparkman -- a quintessential permalancer -- report having to scrape together extra bucks working multiple jobs to supplement meager to nonexistent retirement income.
Richard M. Benjamin: Sparkman: Casualty of Methland, USA? Or Victim of Anti-Government Bile? 2009
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The staff-permalancer split may explain conflicting reports over what happened at Wired. com.
Gawker 2009
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Profession: Fashion designer; permalancer at Men's Active Old Navy
Una LaMarche: Handicapping the Project Runway Season 7 Contestants 2009
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He fires all of his magazine designers how come they don’t report it when creatives get the axe? and is now down to one Art Director and one permalancer…
mialuthien commented on the word permalancer
permalancer – a freelance worker who has worked in one company for so long that he or she is virtually a permanent member of staff
July 14, 2008