| free agent |
a professional athlete, such as a baseball player, who is free to contract to play for any team. |
| free and easy |
casual and unconstrained. |
| free-associate |
to participate in free association. |
| free association |
a psychoanalytic technique for discovering repressed thoughts and emotions, in which the patient talks spontaneously about whatever comes to mind. [2 definitions] |
| freebase |
a refined form of cocaine for smoking. [2 definitions] |
| freebie |
(informal) something given or received free, such as a theater ticket. |
| freeboard |
the distance on a cargo ship between the water line and the highest watertight deck or the upper edge of the side of the hull. [2 definitions] |
| freebooter |
one who plunders, esp. at sea; pirate. |
| freeborn |
born free rather than in slavery or captivity. [2 definitions] |
| free city |
a city having its own sovereign government under international control. |
| freedman |
one who has been released from slavery. |
| freedom |
liberty from imprisonment or enslavement. [9 definitions] |
| freedom fighter |
a person who participates in armed rebellion against an established government, with the expressed aim of freeing the people from oppression. |
| freedom of the press |
the right to publish newspapers, magazines, books, and the like without governmental interference or censorship. |
| Freedom Ride |
any of the bus trips taken by civil rights activists in the 1960s which served to highlight and challenge racial discrimination in the U.S. |
| Freedom Rider |
any of the American civil rights activists who participated in the Freedom Rides, which highlighted and challenged racial discrimination in the United States in the early 1960s. Freedom Riders made bus trips through southern states, demonstrating that public facilities that should have been desegregated according to law were not in fact desegregated. Freedom Riders encountered intense violence along their journeys and many suffered arrest by the police. |
| free enterprise |
the notion that a capitalist economy does not require government support or intervention, but can regulate itself through the relationships of supply and demand in a freely competitive market. |
| free-fall |
the unconstrained fall of a body within a gravitational field. [2 definitions] |
| free-fire zone |
a military area in which anyone or anything can be shot or bombed. |
| free flight |
the flight or any part a flight, as of an airplane or rocket, that occurs without a means of propulsion. |
| freefloating |
lacking a connection, commitment, or focus, esp. with respect to a doctrine, party, or cause. [3 definitions] |