1 ' Free ' absolutely means 'free from any sorts constraints or controls. The context determines its different denotations, if any, as in 'free press', 'fee speech', 'free stuff' etc.
North Central State College will educate students by means of free, open and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth. The duty of North Central State College is to equip students with an opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.
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For selling on craigslist, I simply use the anonymous craigslist reply email as a way of screening out those who can't write a coherent email in reply to my ad. It lets me avoid the Nigerian princes and those who have "their agent" send me a check for more than the purchase price and have me wire them the balance or other such foolishness.
Vintage Rare Huffy Single Speed Fixed Gear - $500 Reply to: sale-618125718@craigslist.org Date: 2008-03-25, 12:49PM EDT Here is a sweet, VINTAGE Huffy Strata, perfect for riding around as a city beater, or converting to a fixed gear bike, that I hear are so popular nowadays. It has Shimano SIS derailleurs, which were the first derailleurs EVER IN THE WHOLE WORLD! It's really RARE, being as ...
eBay / CraigsList finds - "Are you looking for one of these!?" Part II
I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs. free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former indicates the "possession of a right" (freedom of speech) and the latter "protection from a wrong" (freedom from oppression). So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which ...