free-swing|ing

free-swing|ing
free-swing|ing «FREE SWIHNG ihng», adjective.
1. suspended or mounted so as to swing without hindrance, as a pendulum is.
2. Figurative. unrestrained, as by caution or tact: »

a free-swinging fight, a free-swinging article.


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