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[xoxoxoBruce]

Semantics. I feel you're limiting the word.

Definition of free (Entry 1 of 3)
1: not costing or charging anything
2a: having the legal and political rights of a citizen- setting the slave free
b: enjoying civil and political liberty- free citizens
c: enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination - This is a free country.
d: enjoying personal freedom : not subject to the control or domination of another
You are free to do whatever you want.
3a: not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being : choosing or capable of choosing for itself
b: determined by the choice of the actor or performer- free actions
c: made, done, or given voluntarily or spontaneously gave his free consent
4a: relieved from or lacking something and especially something unpleasant or burdensome- free from pain
a speech free of political rhetoric—often used in combination- error-free
b: not bound, confined, or detained by force-The prisoner is now free.
5a: having no trade restrictions- duty-free imports
b: not subject to government regulation- free competition
c: of foreign exchange : not subject to restriction or official control
6a: having no obligations (as to work) or commitments- I'll be free this evening
b: not taken up with commitments or obligations- a free evening
7: having a scope not restricted by qualification- a free variable
8a: not obstructed, restricted, or impeded- free to leave
b: not being used or occupied- waved with his free hand
c: not hampered or restricted in its normal operation
9a: not fastened -the free end of the rope
b: not confined to a particular position or place- in twelve-tone music, no note is wholly free for it must hold its place in the series— J. L. Stewart
c: capable of moving or turning in any direction-a free particle
d: performed without apparatus- free tumbling
e: done with artificial aids (such as pitons) used only for protection against falling and not for support- a free climb
10a: not parsimonious- free spending
b: OUTSPOKEN- is free in his criticism
c: availing oneself of something without stint- she's very free with her money
d: FRANK, OPEN
e: overly familiar or forward in action or attitude- a young man who had been much too free with the ladies of the town— Harvey Graham
f: LICENTIOUS- inexcusably free talk before the ladies
11a(1): not united with, attached to, combined with, or mixed with something else : SEPARATE - free ores
a free surface of a bodily part
(2): FREESTANDING
a free column
b: chemically uncombined- free oxygen- free acids
c: not permanently attached but able to move about- a free electron in a metal
d: capable of being used alone as a meaningful linguistic form- the word hats is a free form— compare BOUND entry 1 sense 7
12a: not literal or exact- free translation
b: not restricted by or conforming to conventional forms- free skating
13: FAVORABLE —used of a wind blowing from a direction more than six points from dead ahead
14: not allowing slavery- was admitted to the Union as a free state
15: open to all comers- that most pleasurable of Anglo-Saxon pastimes, a free fight— Winston Churchill

for free: without charge