free

  1. Adjective.  Not imprisoned or enslaved.
  2. Adjective.  Obtainable without any payment.
  3. Adjective.  (by extension, chiefly) Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.
  4. Adjective.  Unconstrained.
  5. Adjective.  (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
  6. Adjective.  (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
  7. Adjective.  Unobstructed, without blockages.
  8. Adjective.  Not in use.
  9. Adjective.  Without obligations.
  10. Adjective.  (software) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement.
  11. Adjective.  Without; not containing (what is specified).
  12. Adjective.  (programming) Of identifiers, not bound.
  13. Adjective.  (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
  14. Adjective.  (of a, morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
  15. Adverb.  Without needing to pay.
  16. Verb.  (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.
  17. Noun.  (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
  18. Noun.  free transfer.
  19. Noun.  (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.

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