collective. A series of reforming edicts issued by the Turkish government between 1839 and 1876, which aimed to rationalize governmental and…

As a count noun: a particular type of freedom (sense 4a), esp. when regarded as a right; a civil liberty. Usually in plural.

the principle first enunciated by Truman in March 1947 that the United States should ‘support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation’.

In relation to the affairs of the Soviet Union: a declared party policy since 1985 of greater openness and frankness in public statements…