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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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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

But people don’t want a free market with live music.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026

Speaking at the 11th Committee's Third Plenum in Beijing, the country's new leader Deng Xiaoping declared that it was time to embrace some elements of the free market.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

The fate of Scion Capital turned on these bets, but that fate was not, in the short run, determined by an open and free market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis