See free rein in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2018 December, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in Robert Lew, editor, International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 487:",
"text": "Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 July 21, Phil Gates, “Country diary: this forgotten grassland is a butterfly Serengeti”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-19:",
"text": "If I give my imagination free rein on this sultry afternoon, I could almost believe this shoulder-high grassland – a shimmering sea of false oat, cock’s-foot and meadow foxtail – is African savanna.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:",
"text": "Free City is, by design, a generic multiplayer sandbox—it's supposed to look like any and every free-rein video game metropolis.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The absence of constraints; freedom to act, decide, or speak."
],
"links": [
[
"absence",
"absence"
],
[
"constraint",
"constraint"
],
[
"freedom",
"freedom"
],
[
"act",
"act#Verb"
],
[
"decide",
"decide"
],
[
"speak",
"speak#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) The absence of constraints; freedom to act, decide, or speak."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blank check, blank cheque"
},
{
"word": "carte blanche"
},
{
"word": "free hand"
},
{
"word": "proxy in blank"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌfɹiː ˈɹeɪn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌfɹi ˈɹeɪn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪn"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "but sometimes proscribed",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"common"
],
"word": "free reign"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rein of a horse held loosely so that the animal can move more freely; free condition that this gives to a horse",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "löysät ohjakset"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rein of a horse held loosely so that the animal can move more freely; free condition that this gives to a horse",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "vapaat ohjakset"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rein of a horse held loosely so that the animal can move more freely; free condition that this gives to a horse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "freier Lauf"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "labavi uzdi",
"sense": "rein of a horse held loosely so that the animal can move more freely; free condition that this gives to a horse",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "лабави узди"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vrijbrief"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "vapaat kädet"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carte blanche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "champ libre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "freier Lauf"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Freibrief"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "freie Hand"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "a briglia sciolta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "carta bianca"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "campo libero"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "mano libera"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "neobuzdanost",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "необузданост"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wolna ręka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "rédea solta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "carta branca"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svoboda dejstvij",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "свобода действий"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "разу̀ла̄рено̄ст"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Roman razùlārenōst"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "a rètini scioti"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "a minchia china"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "rienda suelta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carta blanca"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"word": "barra libre"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "absence of constraints",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fria tyglar"
}
],
"word": "free rein"
}
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