free-range
[free-reynj]
- (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 kids;free-range parents.
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Origin of free-range
First recorded in 1910–15
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Contemporary Examples
They have been raised like free-range chickens, and I am rather a Chinese chicken mom, which seems to make everyone happy!
Lenore Skenazy is a columnist at ParentDish.com and author of the book and blog, “ Free-Range Kids” (freerangekids.com).
Free-range eggs are healthier—and provide more peace of mind—than factory-farmed eggs, right?
As Foer writes in Eating Animals, “I could keep a flock of hens under my sink and call them free-range.”
The next year he published his second book, resembling the first, called Free-Range Chickens.
Historical Examples
The cattle business has been steadily on the chute—that is, the free-range business.
Cavanagh: Forest RangerHamlin Garland
free-range
- mainly British kept or produced in natural nonintensive conditionsfree-range hens; free-range eggs
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