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You use free as an adjective to describe activities which are not controlled or limited.

Within the EC there is free movement of labour.

...a free press.

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You do not use free as an adverb with this meaning. Instead you use freely.

We are all comrades here and I may talk freely.

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no payment
If something is free, you can have it or use it without paying for it.

The coffee was free.

...free school meals.

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The adverb you use with this meaning is free, not `freely'. For example, you say `Pensioners can travel free on the buses'. You do not say `Pensioners can travel freely on the buses'.

Children can get into the museum free.

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If something is cut or pulled free, it is cut or pulled so that it is no longer attached to something or no longer trapped.

She tugged to get it free.

I shook my jacket free and hurried off.

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You do not say that something is cut or pulled `freely'.
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