freedom of the press

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   a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution

   Broadercivil right

   law

Questions about freedom of the press

What does freedom of the press mean?

freedom of the press means "a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution".

Is freedom of the press a common word?

freedom of the 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.