frees

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Giving myself a title frees me to be detailed and business-like about our finances, helps put me in the right frame of mind to update my guy, and makes me a little less grumpy about the time I spend paying bills, calling the stupid cable company because they've screwed up my bill yet again, and keeping track of mountains of paperwork.

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  1. adjective Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty.
  2. adjective Not controlled by obligation or the will of another: felt free to go.
  3. adjective Having political independence: "America . . . is the freest and wealthiest nation in the world” (Rudolph W. Giuliani).
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  • What's annoying is that O picked up the iPod at the duty-frees store at Heathrow Airport. —  chicagotribune.com -
  • It's a matter of the Mariners maybe not having had someone with my skill set in the front office before, and that kind of frees you up to look for more long-range, big-picture-type projects from a consultant, rather than asking them for basic statistical analysis that I can answer myself. —  Lookout Landing
  • Sixty-plus papers, mostly "frees", have already been closed - the Long Eaton Advertiser is unusual in being a paid-for casualty; 1,000 or so UK journalists have lost their jobs. —  The Guardian World News
  • He frees his right arm and tees off with rights and lefts.
  • Hevvin help me, this afternoon I dropped $450 on three pairs of pain-frees. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
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