free agent

Noun

Meaning

someone acting freely or even irresponsibly

(sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

freewheeler independent rogue rebel contractor experimenter insurrectionist individualist freelance free spirit free agency free-liver self-employed unaffiliated free electron
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Antonyms

common married pair attached dependent conformist
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Hypernyms

pro individual person professional soul mortal

Hyponyms

free-liver

Related terms

free agency

Examples

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. Giacomo Casanova

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me. James Blish

Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again. Charles Dickens

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter. Sugar Ray Leonard

You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms. Whitey Herzog

I am not a free agent. Those with whom I am associated are not free agents. God is the one supreme command. He expresses Himself through me; He expresses Himself through them; we all. Basil King

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