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noun

• Free transfer

• The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.

verb

• To make free; set at liberty; release.

• To rid of something that confines or oppresses.

adjective

• (social) Unconstrained.

  Example: He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.

• Obtainable without any payment.

  Example: It's free real estate.

• (abstract) Unconstrained.

• (physical) Unconstrained.

• Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

  Example: We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat.  I would like to live free from care in the mountains.

• Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.

  Example: a free horse

• Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.

• Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.

  Example: free service;  free socage

• Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.

  Example: a free fishery;  a free warren

adverb

• Without needing to pay.

  Example: I got this bike free.

• Freely; willingly.

noun

• (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.

• The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.