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free agent

noun

a person who is self-determining and is not responsible for their actions to any authority.
a professional athlete who is not under contract and is free to auction off their services and sign a contract with the team that offers the most money.

free agent

First recorded in 1840–50

He's never gone free agent and consequently plays for a salary that is half that of players who've had half his career.

Meanwhile, the free agent Incognito recently sought help for “severe mental stress”.

This man, more than any other free agent, needs to find a new team and receive a paycheck.

While Collins is a free agent now, he has ample opportunities.

Collins is in fact a free agent, meaning he is not signed to a particular team as of now.

God has created forces, and man, a free agent, employs those forces for good or for evil.

No longer was he bound by his job; he was now a free agent and could do as he pleased.

He does not look upon himself as a free agent, working out his own personal salvation.

The presence of your Scottish Guard, and two hundred choice lances, will serve to show that you are a free agent.

None of these European governments in the nineteenth century was in fact a free agent.

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