free press

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   a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology

   Broaderpress

   Narrowergutter press

Questions about free press

What does free press mean?

free press means "a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology".

Is free press a common word?

free press is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.