free agent

Questions about free agent

What does free agent mean?

free agent means "(sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for free agent?

Close synonyms include free spirit, freewheeler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is free agent a common word?

free agent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.