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Free may refer to:

• Freedom
• Freestyle
• Gratis, the process of providing goods or services without monetary compensation

Free may also refer to:

Arts and philosophy

• Freedom (philosophy)
• Free, to emancipate, to obtain political rights (usually for a disenfranchised group)
• Free, a pseudonym for the activist and writer Abbie Hoffman
• "Free" (Desperate Housewives), a television episode
• Free content, content without significant legal usability restrictions
• Free will, control exercised by rational agents over their actions and decisions
• , an upcoming book by Chris Anderson

Computing

• free (programming), a function that releases dynamically allocated memory for reuse
• Freefont, an open font project
• Free format, a file format which can be used without restrictions
• Free software, software usable with few restrictions and distributable as such
• Freeware, a broader class of software available at no cost or for an optional fee
• Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment, a description of the Shenmue game series' engine.

Mathematics

• Free object
  • Free abelian group
  • Free algebra
  • Free group
  • Free module
  • Free semigroup
• Free variable
• Group action

Music

Performers

• Free (band), an English rock band
• Free (rapper), an American rapper

Albums

• Free (Rick Astley album)
• Free (Chi Rho album)
• Free (Concrete Blonde album)
• Free (Dana International album)
• Free (Gavin DeGraw album)
• Free (For Real album)
• Free (Free album), self-titled album
• Free (David Garrett album)
• Free (Brad Johner album)
• Free (Libera album)
• Free (Marcus Miller album), or its title song
• Free (Negativland album)
• Free (OSI album), or its title song
• Free (The Party album)
• Free (Planetshakers album)
• Free (Kate Ryan album)
• Free..., an EP by Acid King, or its title song
• free*, an album by Jim's Big Ego
• Free, an album by Rivermaya

Songs

• "Free" (Sarah Brightman song)
• "Free" (Chicago song)
• "Free" (Erika song)
• "Free" (Estelle song)
• "Free" (Plumb song)
• "Free" (Stryper song)
• "Free" (Deniece Williams song)
• "Free", by Alesha Dixon from Fired Up
• "Free", by Dani Harmer
• "Free", by Depeche Mode, B-side to the single "Precious"
• "Free", by Ultra Naté from Situation: Critical
• "Free", by Phish from Billy Breathes
• "Free", by Cat Power from You Are Free
• "Free", by Powerman 5000 from Transform
• "Free", by Prince from 1999
• "Free", by Quiet Riot from Rehab
• "Free", by VAST from Music for People
• "Free", by Yu Yamada, written as the ending theme for Basquash!

Organizations

• Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, a New York agency providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities
• Fight Repression of Erotic Expression, a University of Minnesota student group, now the Queer Student Cultural Center
• Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, a Lake Jackson, Texas, libertarian think-tank founded by Ron Paul
• Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, a think-tank that promotes free-market environmentalism
• Free (ISP), a French internet service provider
• Free Airlines, a Kinshasa Congolese air operator

Public services

• Free education, education provided at no cost to students
• Free public transport, zero-fare services, funded without collecting fares from passengers

See also

• Gratis versus Libre, a dichotomy illustrated by the phrase "free as in speech, not as in beer"

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