Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
free-range \free-range\ adj. permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot; -- of livestock and domestic poultry.
Syn: unenclosed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than being confined indoors.
WordNet
adj. of livestock and domestic poultry; permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot [syn: unenclosed]
Usage examples of "free-range".
The country hereabouts was getting crowded for free-ranging beef if they'd spent money on this much bobwire.
Even the henhouses had been moved, and were lined up in a neat little row, free-ranging chickens efficiently pecking up every bit of stray grain in nearly every weather, and cleaning up insects in summer.
She's scrawny as a free-range chicken, but she packs a mean wallop when she gets het up.
The covers are rugged hand-laid paper of rice chaff, bamboo tailings, free-range hemp, and crystalline glacial meltwater made by wizened artisans operating out of a mist-shrouded temple hewn from living volcanic rock on some island known only to aerobically gifted, Spandex-sheathed Left Coast travel bores.
He'd been worried about free-ranging hogs the night before, knowing how Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.
Soon enough, Dragon Army would be facing armies that were divided into five toons, not four, and that moved in a free-ranging style with a lot more discretion given to the toon leaders.