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Definition of Free agent
1. Noun. (sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team.
2. Noun. Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Free-liver
Derivative terms: Freewheel
Definition of Free agent
1. Noun. (sports) A professional athlete who is free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team. ¹
2. Noun. A person who acts freely, or without constraint to a higher power. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Agent
Literary usage of Free agent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"The notion man, and the repugnant notions free agent and necessary agent, do not,
... Xow, taking the predicate free agent, this leads me to the closely ..."
2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"A tennis-ball, whether in motion by the stroke of a racket, or lying still at
rest, is not by any one taken to be a free agent. If we inquire into the ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"His former description of a free agent, that is, ' he who hath not made an end
of deliberating', though it was wide from the mark, yet it came much nearer ..."
4. The Works of President Edwards ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"... or interfering voluntary force in that act, notwithstanding his passive power,
is properly a. free agent; for in the moral quality of the act, ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"... compulsion, or interfering voluntary force in that act, notwithstanding his
passive power, is properly a free agent; for in the moral quality of the act ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield (1888)
"... where the defendant chased a the pm g 37 intervening cause must be a free
agent.— Neither is 1 Thus, where a passenger upon a pistol-cartridges to ..."
7. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"You can therefore conceive and suppose such a free agent ? ... Tell me now, what
other character of your supposed free agent may not actually be found in ..."
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