free market
noun
: an economy operating by free competition
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The speeches on Saturday did not include mentions of the free market. 
Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022 As with the rest of the free market, the ultimate arbiters are the consumers, we the public. Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2022 At times like these, Milton Friedman, one of the free market’s greatest defenders, is much missed . . . Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 8 Jan. 2022 That’s the free market regulating itself, a concept which conservatives always claim to cherish. Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2021 As a result, only new residential rentals, both affordable and free market, can help balance the demand-supply equation over time. Shimon Shkury, Forbes, 28 June 2022 The protest was in response to farming laws aimed at loosening the rules around the sale, pricing and storage of farm produce that protected farmers from an unfettered free market for decades. Gunisha Kaur, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022 Roach said his argument isn’t about the culture wars, but about the free market. Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022 Like every other industry in the United States, U.S. LNG is a private enterprise made up of an array of competing companies that operate in a capitalist, free market system. David Blackmon, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022 See More
Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022 As with the rest of the free market, the ultimate arbiters are the consumers, we the public. Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2022 At times like these, Milton Friedman, one of the free market’s greatest defenders, is much missed . . . Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 8 Jan. 2022 That’s the free market regulating itself, a concept which conservatives always claim to cherish. Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2021 As a result, only new residential rentals, both affordable and free market, can help balance the demand-supply equation over time. Shimon Shkury, Forbes, 28 June 2022 The protest was in response to farming laws aimed at loosening the rules around the sale, pricing and storage of farm produce that protected farmers from an unfettered free market for decades. Gunisha Kaur, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022 Roach said his argument isn’t about the culture wars, but about the free market. Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022 Like every other industry in the United States, U.S. LNG is a private enterprise made up of an array of competing companies that operate in a capitalist, free market system. David Blackmon, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1642, in the meaning defined above