freedom : Idioms & Phrases

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academic freedom

  • noun the freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions
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basque homeland and freedom

  • noun a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
    Basque Fatherland and Liberty; ETA; Euskadi ta Askatasuna.
    • in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials
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degree of freedom

  • noun (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution
  • noun one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system
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freedom fighter

  • noun a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
    insurgent; rebel; insurrectionist.
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Freedom fine

  • a sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades.
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freedom from cruel and unusual punishment

  • noun a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution
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freedom from discrimination

  • noun immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States
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freedom from double jeopardy

  • noun a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution
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freedom from involuntary servitude

  • noun a civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution
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freedom from search and seizure

  • noun a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution
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freedom from self-incrimination

  • noun the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself
    privilege against self incrimination.
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freedom of assembly

  • noun the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
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freedom of religion

  • noun a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
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freedom of speech

  • noun a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
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Freedom of the city

  • the possession of the rights and privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.
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freedom of the press

  • noun a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
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freedom of the seas

  • noun the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters
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freedom of thought

  • noun the right to hold unpopular ideas
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freedom party

  • noun the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia; advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state
    Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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freedom rider

  • noun one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
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freedom to bear arms

  • noun a right guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution
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