freeadjective, adverb
uk/friː/us/friː/free adjective, adverb (NOT LIMITED)
B2 not limited or controlled:
relaxed and informal:
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- Feel free to help yourself to coffee.
- I do a lot of reading in my free time.
- We like to get the marketing done on Thursdays so we can have the weekend free.
- The recent free elections mark the next step in the country's progress towards democracy.
- The very concept of free speech is unknown to them.
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Freedom to act
- (as) free as a bird idiom
- at will idiom
- autonomous
- autonomy
- be a law unto yourself idiom
- free hand
- free rein idiom
- free spirit
- free time
- free-form
- independent
- indie
- latitude
- liberty
- maverick
- me time
- no holds barred idiom
- no holds barred
- paddle your own canoe idiom
- volunteer
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free adjective, adverb (NO CHARGE)
A2 costing nothing, or not needing to be paid for:
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- Adults pay an admission charge but children get in free.
- The books will be distributed free to local schools.
- All the carpets we sell are fitted free.
- They fixed my watch free of charge.
- Adults pay an admission charge but children get in free.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Costing little or no money
- bargain
- bargain bin
- cheap rate
- cheaply
- cut-price
- downscale
- economy-size
- entry level
- knock-down
- low-rent
- mass market
- modest
- nothing
- reasonably
- snip
- something
- song
- steal
- tacky
- trinket
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free adjective, adverb (NOT IN PRISON)
B2 not a prisoner any longer, or having unlimited movement:
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- Don't you think that allowing a criminal to go free is perhaps better than imprisoning an innocent person?
- He went free because the jury decided there was a reasonable doubt about his guilt.
- The police reasoned with the hijackers to at least let the children go free.
- The Court of Appeal reversed the earlier judgment and set him free.
- After years in prison, the men who had wrongfully been found guilty of the bombing were finally set free.
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Freedom to act
- (as) free as a bird idiom
- at will idiom
- autonomous
- autonomy
- be a law unto yourself idiom
- free hand
- free rein idiom
- free spirit
- free time
- free-form
- independent
- indie
- latitude
- liberty
- maverick
- me time
- no holds barred idiom
- no holds barred
- paddle your own canoe idiom
- volunteer
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free adjective, adverb (LOOSE)
not in a fixed position or not joined to anything:
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Separateness and isolation in space
- apart
- atomistic
- atomized
- bitty
- cloistered
- distance
- distance yourself from sth
- divorced
- freely
- give sth/sb a wide berth idiom
- hermetically sealed
- loose
- loosely
- parted
- privacy
- private
- purdah
- unattached
- uninhabited
- untethered
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Idiom(s)
freeadjective
uk/friː/us/friː/free adjective (NOT BUSY)
A2 not doing anything planned or important, or available to be used:
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- I've got something on this Tuesday, but I'm free on Wednesday.
- I just wanted to ask you if you're free this afternoon.
- We like to get the marketing done on Thursdays so we can have the weekend free.
- Are you free at lunchtime?
- She's never at home because she spends all her free time at hockey practices.
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Available and accessible
- accessible
- at your command idiom
- availability
- available
- be there for sb idiom
- bookable
- come out
- hand
- nothing
- on hand idiom
- on stream idiom
- on/about your person idiom
- open (sth) up
- person
- ready
- ready-made
- release
- season
- vacant
- vacant possession
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free adjective (WITHOUT)
C1 [ after verb ] not having something that is unwanted or unpleasant:
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Lacking things
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (for sth) idiom
- bereft
- catch
- cry out for sth
- demand
- hole
- lack
- lacking
- need
- need sth like you need a hole in the head idiom
- needful
- short
- shortage
- shy
- the cupboard is bare idiom
- the UN
- unsatisfied
- vacuum
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free adjective (GIVING/USING OFTEN)
giving or using often or in large amounts:
to use something that belongs to someone else a lot:
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Generous & charitable
- altruistic
- beneficent
- big-hearted
- bountiful
- charitable
- generosity
- handout
- humane
- humanitarian
- humanity
- Lady Bountiful
- lavish
- munificent
- open-handed
- philanthropic
- philanthropist
- public-spirited
- sweet
- unstinting
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free adjective (CHEMICAL)
specialized chemistry If an element is free, it is not combined with anything else or attached to anything else:
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Chemical elements
- alkali metal
- antimony
- calcium
- carbonic
- carbonic acid
- cesium
- cl
- graphene
- lithium
- nickel
- plutonium
- quicksilver
- selenium
- strontium
- sulphur
- transition metal
- urea
- vanadium
- xenon
- zinc
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Idiom(s)
freeverb
uk/friː/us/friː/free verb (NOT IN PRISON)
B2 [ T ] to allow someone to leave a prison or place where they have been kept:
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- The government pursued every official channel to free the hostages.
- She was freed from prison through the agency of her doctor.
- She never gave up the struggle to have her son freed from prison.
- Most political prisoners were freed under the terms of the amnesty.
- The campaigners appealed to the government to free the prisoners.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- chillax
- decontrol
- deregulate
- emancipate
- exempt
- get
- let/set sth loose idiom
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- loosen sb's tongue idiom 1
- loosen sb's tongue
- relax
- relax your grip/hold idiom
- release
- tongue
- unbind
- unconfined
- unhand
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free verb (MAKE LOOSE)
[ T ] to move or make loose someone or something that is caught or held somewhere:
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Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- chillax
- decontrol
- deregulate
- emancipate
- exempt
- get
- let/set sth loose idiom
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- loosen sb's tongue idiom 1
- loosen sb's tongue
- relax
- relax your grip/hold idiom
- release
- tongue
- unbind
- unconfined
- unhand
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free verb (REMOVE LIMITS)
[ T + obj + to infinitive ] to remove the limits or controls on someone or something:
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Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- chillax
- decontrol
- deregulate
- emancipate
- exempt
- get
- let/set sth loose idiom
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- loosen sb's tongue idiom 1
- loosen sb's tongue
- relax
- relax your grip/hold idiom
- release
- tongue
- unbind
- unconfined
- unhand
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free verb (MAKE AVAILABLE)
[ T ] to make something available for someone to use:
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Available and accessible
- accessible
- at your command idiom
- availability
- available
- be there for sb idiom
- bookable
- come out
- hand
- nothing
- on hand idiom
- on stream idiom
- on/about your person idiom
- open (sth) up
- person
- ready
- ready-made
- release
- season
- vacant
- vacant possession
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