Usually means: Unrestricted freedom to make decisions.
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  1. free rein: Merriam-Webster
  2. free rein: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. free rein: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. free rein: Vocabulary.com
  5. free rein: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. free rein: Wiktionary
  7. free rein: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. free rein: Dictionary.com
  9. Free Rein: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. free rein: Rhymezone
  11. free rein: FreeDictionary.org
  12. free rein: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. free rein: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. free rein: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. free rein: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. free rein: Medical dictionary

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  1. free rein: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (free rein)

noun:  (equestrianism) A rein of a horse held loosely so that the animal can move more freely; also, the free condition that this gives to a horse.
noun:  (figurative) The absence of constraints; freedom to act, decide, or speak.

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