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Unfree
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Un`free´
a.1.Not free; held in bondage.
There had always been a slave class, a class of the unfree, among the English as among all German peoples.
- J. R. Green
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Adj.1.unfree - held in servitude; "he was born of slave parents"
unfree - hampered and not free; not able to act at will
free - not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man"
2.Unfree - hampered and not freeunfree - hampered and not free; not able to act at will
bound - confined by bonds; "bound and gagged hostages"
confined - not free to move about
dependent - relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture"
restricted - subject to restriction or subjected to restriction; "of restricted importance"
free - able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"


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9788178299402 Unfreedom and waged work; labour in India's manufacturing industry.
Freedom now consists of all that used to be thought unfreedom.
Maryam's migration to America betrays her preference for being an outsider rather than live a life of unfreedom in Iran: "[the issue concerns] whether one sacrificed freedom and independence to take on inherited responsibility [of one's own patriarchal culture in Iran] or risked rootlessness and alienation by leaving home and hearth" (Michiko Kakutani, "Belonging to a Family, Belonging in America.
 
 
 
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