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Definition of Free agency
1. Noun. (sports) the state of a professional athlete who is free to negotiate a contract to play for any team.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Agency
Literary usage of Free agency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"Imaginary terrors may have been created sufficient to deprive him of free agency ;
a will thus made may possibly be described as obtained by coercion. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"... Mans Free-Agency, the Theory of Life, the Peculiarities of Mental Property,
Mental Diseases, the Agency of Mind upon the Body, of Phi/sical Temperament ..."
3. Peru by William Hickling Prescott (1900)
"The imperative spirit of despotism would not allow them to be happy or miserable
in any way but that established by law. The power of free agency—the ..."
4. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1850)
"GDW HUMAN LIBERTY AND free agency. Scarcely any question, connected with theology in
... It is still a matter of controversy in what the free agency of man, ..."
5. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1821)
"Jin Essay concerning (he free agency of Man, or the Powers and Faculties of the
Human Mind, the Decrees of God, Moral Obligation, Natural Law, and Morality. ..."
6. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"CHAPTER III HUMAN free agency MAN is a free agent. This, we would claim, ...
What is meant by the assertion of freedom or free agency is that the agent is ..."
7. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1886)
"That they are inconsistent with the free agency of man. To this \ve reply that : A.
The objection confounds the decrees with the execution of the decrees. ..."
8. Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators by James Schouler (1915)
"If found sufficient to destroy the testator's free agency in the transaction at
issue, it mast be pronounced undue even though slight;8 and conversely, ..."
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