- the power to make your own decisions about what to do, without being controlled by God, fate or circumstancesTopics Preferences and decisionsc2
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See free will in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee free will in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishof your own free will
- because you want to do something rather than because somebody has told or forced you to do it
- She left of her own free will.
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