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This article is about the word meaning "liberated". For English rock band, see Free (band). For the American rapper and former BET host see Free (rapper)

The transitive verb to free may mean to emancipate, to release from a constriction, or to confer freedom — but as an adjective free appears in a great many phrases, generally with the meaning of either "without cost", or "unconstrained, not imprisoned" or when used as a suffix, "lack of."


Intellectual property

Mathematics

Philosophy

  • Freedom - see Philosophy disambiguation.

The phrase "...free as in free speech, not as in free beer..." is sometimes used in informal debate and philosophy to separate different uses of 'free' when discussing the subjects of freedoms, esp. as regards information and/or rights to services.

Literature

Free, a pseudonym for the activist and writer Abbie Hoffman

Computer science

Other

  • FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment) is a neologism coined by Yu Suzuki to describe his Shenmue game series.
  • FREE (Fight Repression of Erotic Expression) was a University of Minnesota - Twin Cities student group founded in May 1969. It was the first gay and lesbian student-run group in the United States, and the first GLBT organization established in the state of Minnesota.

It is now the Queer Student Cultural Center.

References

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