free speech

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noun

Nearby words

free skating, free socage, free soil, free soil party, free space, free speech, free spirit, free state, free stater, free territory of trieste, free thought

Origin of free speech

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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Examples from the Web for free speech

Its insidious reach enters into medical offices and chokes off the free-speech rights of the people trying to work there.
Pediatricians Have the Right to Ask About Guns|Russell Saunders|July 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Jacob Mchangama, a free-speech activist and author in Copenhagen, agrees.
The Repentant Radical|Michael Moynihan|September 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But following an outcry from free-speech advocates and fellow filmmakers, officials eventually backed down.
The Last Jews of Egypt|Alastair Beach|March 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
From that, he notes, we derive everything essential in American free-speech rights.
Free Speech: A Cloistered Value?|Hussein Ibish|September 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST

He's always proud to see American citizens exercising their free-speech rights.
Pop Culture and the Recession|David Frum|April 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
During the next few years after the schism of 1908 these free-speech struggles became rather frequent.
The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden
They cannot sustain a live organization unless they have a strike or free-speech fight to stimulate their spirit.
An American Idyll|Cornelia Stratton Parker
Weinstock, Harris, report on San Diego free-speech fight, 266.
The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden
No attempt is made here to go into the various strikes and free-speech controversies in more than a very cursory manner.
The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden
The most serious of these was the Everett free-speech controversy which culminated in the fatal tragedy of November 6, 1916.
The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden

British Dictionary definitions for free speech

free speech

noun

the right to express one's opinions publicly

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