free market

noun
an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.

free-mar·ket, adjective
free marketeer, noun
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free market
 
n
a.  an economic system that allows supply and demand to regulate prices, wages, etc, rather than government policy
 b.  (as modifier): a free-market economy

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Free market is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Cultural Dictionary

free market definition


The production and exchange of goods and services without interference from the government or from monopolies.

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Example sentences
All the gov needs to do it tax the fossil fuels so a real free market can work.
If only in a free market, the total of cost renewable energy cost were lower
  then nonrenewable.
Americans, some contend, are only now waking up to the inherent dangers of the
  free market.
National concerns are distortion from free market principles.
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