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free float

Speech parts

1. free float - Noun

2. free float - Verb

Meaning

An estimate of the proportion of shares of a public company that are not held by large owners and that are not stock with sales restrictions.

A floating rate of exchange rate under which the currency's value is allowed to fluctuate in response to foreign-exchange market mechanisms without government intervention.
Synonym: clean float

free float (third-person singular simple present free floats, present participle free floating, simple past and past participle free floated)

(firearms) to alter a firearm so that no part of the barrel touches the stock.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float. Margaret Atwood

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