0 a professional sports player who does not have a contract with any particular team
1 someone who can decide for themselves what they do, for example, a worker who can easily choose who to work for:
Now at the end of a one-year contract, he is effectively a free agent from tomorrow.
The role of a moral "free agent" was as distant from passivity as it was from autonomy.
The replicant individual may be made to feel that he is less of a free agent.
It requires the preference of the free agent to be decisive independently of content and, under my reading, independently of context.
Being a free agent, this reason can only be found in the protagonist's preference for one alternative over the other.
To be a free agent, then, is just to have a capacity for practical reason, and for action on the basis of that reason.
Furthermore, there was no instance of a court examining whether a minor had acted as a 'free agent' in consenting to dedication as a temple dancing girl.
The second component of my defence is a rejection of ' middle knowledge ', or knowledge of what a free agent would choose to do in various circumstances.
He is a free agent; the landowner is not.