freeing

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freeing

  1. present participle and gerund of free

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freeing (countable and uncountable, plural freeings)

  1. The act of making something free; liberation.
    • 1991, Gayl Jones, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature:
      However again, in these freeings of voices it should be observed that the African American Southern voice and character is framed within the freed European American Southern voice.
    • 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 35:
      The freeing of funding from a never-ending pipeline of expensive road schemes is going to happen over time, and will allow mult-modal schemes to be funded first.

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