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Definitions

free market

NOUN
capitalism
Synonyms
STRONG
commercialism competition industrialism mercantilism
WEAK
free enterprise laissez faire economics private enterprise
Antonyms
WEAK
communism
NOUN
free enterprise
Synonyms
STRONGEST
liberalism
WEAK
capitalism free competition free economy free-enterprise economy free-enterprise system open market private enterprise self-regulating market
NOUN
open market
Synonyms
WEAK
Common Market competitive market free enterprise free port free trade free trade zone open trade

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Korsgaden has a free market approach that involves establishing a New Business Division in the insurance department to encourage more carriers with more diverse products to enter the market.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The original philosophy had four ingredients: freedom of thought, a free market, room for creative disagreement and diversity, and a removal of obstacles to self-development.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

So the advisory firms arose from a free market to offer them analysis.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026

It leaves Guehi and Dayot Upamecano as options if they are to enter the free market to strengthen at centre-back - a strategy they have used several times in recent seasons.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

Private enterprise was supposed to build an industrial duty-free port in Bolivia Mar. Thus far the free market has not accepted the challenge.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann