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FREE PRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does free press mean?
• FREE PRESS (noun)
The noun FREE PRESS has 1 sense:
1. a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology
Familiarity information: FREE PRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("free press" is a kind of...):
press; public press (the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "free press"):
gutter press (press that engages in sensational journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures))
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