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词汇 free-agent
释义 free agent
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌfriː ˈeɪ.dʒənt/ us /ˌfriː ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a professional sports player who does not have a contract with any particular team(职业体育中)没有和任何队伍签约的选手
someone whose actions are not limited or controlled by anyone else行动自由的人,自由人
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Freedom to act

free agent | Business English


free agent
noun[ C ]
ukus
someone who can decide for themselves what they do, for example, a worker who can easily choose who to work for:
Now at the end of a one-year contract, he is effectively a free agent from tomorrow.

Examples of free agent


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The role of a moral "freeagent" was as distant from passivity as it was from autonomy.
The replicant individual may be made to feel that he is less of a freeagent.
It requires the preference of the freeagent to be decisive independently of content and, under my reading, independently of context.
Being a freeagent, this reason can only be found in the protagonist's preference for one alternative over the other.
To be a freeagent, then, is just to have a capacity for practical reason, and for action on the basis of that reason.
Furthermore, there was no instance of a court examining whether a minor had acted as a 'freeagent' in consenting to dedication as a temple dancing girl.
The second component of my defence is a rejection of ' middle knowledge ', or knowledge of what a freeagent would choose to do in various circumstances.
He is a freeagent; the landowner is not.
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A local authority is not a freeagent in this respect.
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But, of course, the landlord is not a freeagent.
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It will be a freeagent in the same way as local authorities are free to decide their own rents at present.
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It will be a freeagent in every other sense.
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The committee wanted to pay and would have done so if it had been a freeagent at that time.
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It is advice which, no doubt, would have been given publicly if it had remained a freeagent.
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He is a freeagent in the matter.
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