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• Political freedom is the absence of political restraints, particularly with respect to speech, religious practice, and the press.

• not being in prison, not (in particular, no longer) the victim of false imprisonment

• economic freedom, i.e., having choices, not being subject to very many natural or institutional constraints. A monopolistic firm has more freedom to set prices than does a firm in a perfectly competitive market. One with more net worth has more freedom than one without any. See economic power.

• being not in any relationship (be it a romantic relationship or a cooperative, for example), free to do what one wants, including starting a new relationship or having relationship tests (like one-night-stands, casual physical intimacy, etc).

• coming of ageComing of age is a time at which young persons legally (or otherwise) become adults. It can be at different ages in different countries. Many cultures have ceremonies to test or mark the coming of age. The term coming of age is also used in reference to s and leaving one's parents' home

• freedom of choice i.e. free willFree will is the philosophical doctrine that our choices are, ultimately, "up to us. Consequently, an unfree action must be somehow "up to" something else. The phrase "up to us" is vague, and, just like free will itself, admits of a variety of interpretat

• the absence of interactionGenerally, an interaction is a kind of action which occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another. The word is sometimes used synonymously with " transaction"; in some cases, a difference between the two should be distinguished. Examples is in physicsPhysics (from the Greek, physikos , "natural", and physis , "Nature") is the science of Nature in the broadest sense. Physicists study the behavior and properties of matter in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the sub-microscopic particles from whi; for example, asymptotic freedomIn physics, asymptotic freedom is the property of some gauge theories in which the interaction between the particles, such as quarks, becomes arbitrarily weak at ever shorter distances, i. length scales that asymptotically converge to zero (or, equivalent discovered by David GrossDavid Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D. is an American physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic freedom. In 1973, Gros, David Politzer, and Frank WilczekFrank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American physicist. Along with H. David Politzer and David Gross, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. In 1973, Wilczek, a gradua

For the shorter term, being free also means having holidays, weekend, finished work for the day, having a break.

It is also the name of a British newspaper, an album by Neil Young, two otherwise unrelated songs by Richie Havens and Rage Against the Machine, and small towns in New York, New Hampshire and Wyoming.

Political philosopher Gerald MacCallum designed the following concept of freedom, allowing for its 'fleshing out' into many different conceptions: "X is free/not free from Y to do/not do/become/not become Z"