free-range

[ free-reynj ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

(of livestock and domestic poultry) permitted to graze or forage for grain, etc., rather than being confined to a feedlot or a small enclosure:
a free-range pig.
of, relating to, or produced by free-range animals:
free-range eggs.
Informal. noting or relating to a style of child rearing in which parents allow their children to move about without constant adult supervision: free-range parents.
free-range kids;
free-range parents.

free-range

kept or produced in natural nonintensive conditions
free-range eggs
free-range hens

First recorded in 1910–15

Prince Charles has closed down his small free-range egg business after 24 of his beloved hens were killed by a fox.

They have been raised like free-range chickens, and I am rather a Chinese chicken mom, which seems to make everyone happy!

You know labels like ‘organic,’ ‘free range,’ or ‘non GMO,’ but what exactly do they mean?

Williams-Sonoma also offers a fresh free-range turkey, also from Willie Bird ranch.

Lenore Skenazy is a columnist at ParentDish.com and author of the book and blog, “ Free-Range Kids” (freerangekids.com).

It impounds the deer, but gives free range to the wolf and to his as pitiless two-legged brother, the crust hunter.

You'd better get your cow out of here; this isn't free range, you know.

Perhaps the males were allowed free range, the females only being permitted at stated seasons to accompany them.

I doubt not but that it likes him better than the tending of apricots when he has the free range of the ale-houses to work on.

It is only when physical necessities have been met or ignored that the spirit of man has free range.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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