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Free agency   /fri ˈeɪdʒənsi/   Listen
Free agency

noun
1.
(sports) the state of a professional athlete who is free to negotiate a contract to play for any team.





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"Free agency" Quotes from Famous Books



... this be so, O friend of my father?" exclaimed Sir Jocelyn. "And why should my presence be hateful to you? There is no man living whom I would less willingly offend than yourself; and in all I have done, where you have been concerned, I have had no free agency. Judge me not then too harshly. I commiserate your situation from the depths of my heart, and would relieve it were ...
— The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth
... is absurd, because it is not possible for us, by means of it, to persuade God to change His plans. He produces foreknown and foreintended effects, by the instrumentality of the forces of nature, all of which are His forces. Our own are part of these. Our free agency and our will are forces. We do not absurdly cease to make efforts to attain wealth or happiness, prolong life, and continue health, because we cannot by any effort change what is predestined. If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will. ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike


Words linked to "Free agency" :   athletics, delegacy, agency, sport, representation


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