free-range

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free-range (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than being confined indoors.
    • 2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      We've imbued "natural food" with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice. It's on this basis, I believe, that many morally concerned meat eaters justify purchasing meat from small, free-range animal farms.
  2. (by extension, of children) Allowed to move about outdoors without supervision.
    free-range children
    • 2015, Jennifer Miskec, Annette Wannamaker, The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture, →ISBN:
      While I have not found corroboration for King's claim, Ivy and Bean series author Annie Barrows has acknowledged that there is a delicate balancing act involved in representing free-range children today
  3. Relating to a hands-off parenting style in which children are allowed to go out and explore alone.
    free-range parents
    • 2019, Gayle Kimball, How Global Youth Values Will Change Our Future, page 95:
      To correct helicopter parenting, critics have proposed slow parenting, simplicity parenting, and free-range parenting.
    • 2025 October 16, Ross Douthat, quoting Amy Coney Barrett, “Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      I think they would laugh if someone asked them whether I was a loose, free-range parent — or my husband, Jesse, for that matter. No, we’re pretty organized and pretty intense.
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