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free-for-all

/free-fer-awl/US // ˈfri fərˌɔl //

自由活动,自由竞争,自由发挥,自由放任

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fight, argument, contest, etc., open to everyone and usually without rules.
    • : any competition or contested situation that is disordered, impulsive, or out of control: a free-for-all at the buffet table.
    • : Informal. any enterprise or field of endeavor in which various companies, countries, participants, etc., compete without restriction: a price-cutting free-for-all among local stores.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : open to everyone.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

  • But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

  • Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

  • If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.

  • The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.

  • Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.