Free agent
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A professional athlete who is free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team.
"Or, if that’s too cringe, you can put it like The Wall Street Journal did at the end of last month: “With this spending bonanza and frenzy of movement, AI geeks are being treated more like NBA free agents.”"
- 2 someone acting freely or even irresponsibly wordnet
- 3 A person who acts freely, or without constraint to a higher power.
"Nevertheless, in despite of the shackles by which he is bound, it is pretended he is a free agent, or that independent of the causes by which he is moved, he determines his own will; regulates his own condition."
- 4 (sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team wordnet
Example
More examples"Or, if that’s too cringe, you can put it like The Wall Street Journal did at the end of last month: “With this spending bonanza and frenzy of movement, AI geeks are being treated more like NBA free agents.”"