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free agency

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free agent
n.
A professional athlete who is free to sign a contract with any team.
free agency n.
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Noun1.free agency - (sports) the state of a professional athlete who is free to negotiate a contract to play for any team
athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
delegacy, representation, agency - the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
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He manifested in his dog's brain the free agency of life, by which all the generations of metaphysicians have postulated God, and by which all the deterministic philosophers have been led by the nose despite their clear denouncement of it as sheer illusion.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
---The Templar loses, as thou hast said, his social rights, his power of free agency, but he becomes a member and a limb of a mighty body, before which thrones already tremble,---even as the single drop of rain which mixes with the sea becomes an individual part of that resistless ocean, which undermines rocks and ingulfs royal armadas.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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