free agent

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Operate like a free agent; only you know what really inspires you.
行動像一名自由球員；只有你自己知道什么能真正鼓舞你。
With clout, you could find yourself with a better offer from the company or on the free agent market.
如果你有好的業(yè)績，你就會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己能夠在公司或者在代理自由市場上得到一份更好的合約。
“It’s just impossible to say, ” said the agent Mark Bartelstein, whose client David Lee will be a free agent, when asked to forecast what could happen with free agency this time.
“這很難說，”經(jīng)紀人馬克說，他的客戶大衛(wèi)李也將變成自由球員，當請他預(yù)測一下這次的自由市場會發(fā)生哪些變化時。

He became a "free agent." For months,sports fans had tried to predict where the star would choose to play.
On July first, after seven years with Cleveland, LeBron James became a free agent.
"Another way of looking at it is that a free agent in a sports league is the same thing as anybody else in the United States labor market.

Sure, there are times when splurging to reel in a big fish free agent makes sense.
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a professional sports player who does not have a contract with any particular team

If you say that someone is a free agent, you are emphasizing that they can do whatever they want to do, because they are not responsible to anyone or for anyone.
If an athlete is a free agent, he or she is free to sign a contract with any team.