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"You’re free to say what you want,” Harvard President Drew G. Faust said. “You're also free to take the hits for saying things that are stupid or prejudicial or uninformed. Those two things go together.”

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free expression

NOUN

The unconstrained or uninhibited expression of one's thoughts, feelings, creative capacities, etc.

Origin

Early 20th century. 1943

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ADJECTIVE (freer /ˈfriːə/, freest /ˈfriːɪst/)

1Able to act or be done as one wishes; not under the control of another:I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be freea free choice

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1.1[WITH INFINITIVE] Able or permitted to take a specified action:you are free to leave

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1.2(Of a state or its citizens or institutions) subject neither to foreign domination nor todespotic government:a free press

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1.3historical Not a slave:the poor among the free men joined the slaves against the rich

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1.4[IN NAMES] Denoting an ethnic or political group actively opposing an occupying orinvading force, in particular the groups that continued resisting the Germans in theSecond World War after the fall of their countries:the Free Dutch, Free Polish, and Free Norwegian fleetsSee also Free French.

Free French

An organization of French troops and volunteers in exile formed under General de Gaulle in 1940. Based in London, the movement organized forces that opposed the Axis powers in French Equatorial Africa, Lebanon, and elsewhere, and cooperated with the French Resistance.