Definition of "free market" []

• An economic market in which supply and demand are not regulated or are regulated with only minor restrictions. (noun)

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• "This free market prescription was tough medicine for assemblymen accustomed to seeing these issues through the prism of party affiliation, but now they found both Reed and Morris joined in an uncomfortable but firm alliance."
• "The full range of ideas and reforms Morris introduced, from the bank to the repeal of tender laws, can be readily bound together under the rubric of laissez-faire, free market economics."
• "Those rookies at Goldman Sachs will come to me and ask how to work this free market ba-ziz-ness up in here!"