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Free transfer
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The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
verb
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To make free; set at liberty; release.
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To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
adjective
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(social) Unconstrained.
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He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
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Obtainable without any payment.
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It's free real estate.
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(abstract) Unconstrained.
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(physical) Unconstrained.
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Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
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We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat. I would like to live free from care in the mountains.
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Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
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a free horse
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Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
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Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
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free service; free socage
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Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
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a free fishery; a free warren
adverb
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Without needing to pay.
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I got this bike free.
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Freely; willingly.
noun
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(other ballgames) a kick in which a player may kick the ball without interference from the opposition. Such a kick may be awarded for a foul by the opposition, or earned by a player such as by taking a mark.
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The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
Examples of free in a Sentence
Hey, I really am free this time.
You can spend it with a free conscience.
Free elections can be threatening as well, literally to their livelihoods.
No one is guaranteed a free ride.
For the present I am free and am all right.
I'm not asking for a free pass.
His eyes were dancing with amusement as he used one hand to jerk the towel free and expose cut-off blue jeans.
When Alex lowered her to the ground, she jerked her hand free and marched off to the house.
I was young and finally free.
Feel free to get anything you want out of the attic.
He was free, he had nothing but his aim to consider, and he reached it.
She pulled her arm free and hurried to the house.
While we were free to play with it, nothing was required of us.
Sofia exclaimed and balled up her free hand into a fist until her nails bit into flesh.
How many times have I offered to let you stay with me - free?
She pulled it free, once again compelled to stare at the name written there.
She'd stepped near him in her dream, until he swiped at her, and she tried to free a scream from her frozen body.
I struggled free but she pushed me down.
Let it be a free gift to them from the city.
Schedules were exchanged until a free weekend opened up, after our obligatory trip to Iowa and Betsy's parents.
Her hair was free, the long, loose curls cascading down her shoulders and back.
The tang of the untainted, fresh and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought, and the shells and pebbles and the seaweed with tiny living creatures attached to it never lost their fascination for me.
But you understand that medical treatment isn't free?
How did you free him?
This will create a cascading effect; once energy, for instance, is free, it will make precious metals free.
The price of such hardware is in free fall.
You could have the libertarian state, the green state, the clothing-optional state, the state with free public housing for all, the state where puns are outlawed, the state with a two-drink minimum, the fiercely pro-business state—even a state that guarantees free speech but requires that you sing your speech like a show tune.
Tiny countries willing to engage in free trade with their neighbors can prosper.
Though in the new reign he was free to return to the capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing.
On one of his estates the three hundred serfs were liberated and became free agricultural laborers--this being one of the first examples of the kind in Russia.
Why should I remember a 'Get out of Jail Free' card and not recognize my own mother, or a picture of my father or sister; or this bratty cousin?
He didn't like that she was able to pull those memories free of the prison he'd sent them to.
She didn't need to know he planned on having her killed off, once and for all, once they were free of Hell.
In 58 BC, Clodius Pulcher ran on a "free grain for the poor" platform as he tried to become tribune.
Others say poor nations need to develop free markets in agriculture and strongly discourage government intervention.
No one has ever complained yet of being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it up tomorrow.
Bumpus sat near the two, acting like a protector and getting free hand pats for his reward.
Otto goes to every bar around that has trivia night and drinks for free.
The dress was thick silk and moved like water as she pulled it free and held it against her.
Whatever it was, it wasn't going to be free.
In a short time he was free and in the open air.
A poor person with free access to the Internet at the library is wealthier than a poor person with free access to just a library.
In using the phrase, "Necessitous men are not free men," Roosevelt was actually quoting from a decision in a well-known 1762 English legal case.
Free and peaceful societies function best when government is transparent and open.
Free people establish governments to protect their rights.
Prosperity requires civil liberties, prosperity thrives under lower taxes, and prosperity shrivels as wars disrupt the free flow of labor and capital.
Eventually they even set us free.
The rest of the time you're free to do as you please.
Dusty took her hand, his other pulling his remaining knife free.
Jule pulled his hands free from the handcuffs and tugged the blanket up.