The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word FREELANCE
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More clues leading to the result FREELANCE
- Working for oneself, run through payment, clean out
- 100 in clear section of road is perhaps working for many?
- Independent fish from the poisonnier?
- On the house over the road, outside key’s unattached
- Working for oneself in European country catching fish
- Priceless old weapon employed by no-one in particular
- Self-employed person concerned with style in football club bottom of league
- General goes back into country as mercenary …
- Something electric, possibly, in country working independently
- Following dance, a northern church is self-supporting?
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The straight part
We know that "unattached" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case unattached = freelance.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FREELANCE mean?
FREELANCE noun- Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
- A medieval mercenary.
- To work as a freelance.
- To produce or sell services as a freelance.
- Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.