unfree
IPA: ʌnfri
noun
- (historical) A person lacking freedom, such as a tenant bound to a manor.
adjective
- Not free; lacking freedom, especially (historical) of a tenant who was bound to a manor.
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Examples of "unfree" in Sentences
- But for that reason to call every action unfree is shortsighted.
- Beneath them were the "unfree" _nativi_, sold or given with the soil.
- If you are willing to part with a buck or two, there are a slew of "unfree" ham radio apps, too.
- I’ve never seen CNN air anything like that before or be so open about the constraints their reporters work under in unfree countries.
- Ricardo: I’ve never seen CNN air anything like that before or be so open about the constraints their reporters work under in unfree countries.
- Peasant labour was "unfree" - tied to a particular estate and having to provide a share of their crops or labour to the lord or the monastery that ruled them.
- Now two categories of being "unfree" and "under a new guardianship", are the same, but the results would have been too embarrassing for the government and its external patrons.
- Less clearly defined than the distinction between the free and the unfree was the distinction, which began to develop toward the middle of the century, and which was doubtless accentuated by the Cavalier migration from England during the Commonwealth period, between the small and the large landowner.
- Here are some of the ways that I will be encouraging the FSF to serve the free software movement in the coming year: short essay I wrote earlier this year, I pointed out that there are now billions of mobile phones and that, although these phones are increasingly powerful computers, they represent one of the most locked-down, proprietary, and "unfree" technologies in wide use.
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