free trade

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   international trade free of government interference

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   NarrowerNorth American Free Trade Agreement

Questions about free trade

What does free trade mean?

free trade means "international trade free of government interference".

Is free trade a common word?

free trade 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.