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Accessed 6 August 2018. <dl><dd>"It has been a profitable trade period for the Blues. They also secured Dale Thomas as a restricted free agent and Sam Docherty from the Brisbane Lions, having lost Shaun Hampson in a trade with Richmond and Eddie Betts under <b>free agency</b>."</dd></dl></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/sports" title="sports">sports</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> The movement of an athlete to a team through free agency. <ul><li><b>2018</b> Brian Windhorst, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23303509/lebron-james-hit-free-agency-again-anything-possible-nba">Get ready: Superteams and superstars can recruit LeBron again</a> <i>ESPN</i>, 9 June 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018. <dl><dd>"In his past two <b>free agencies</b>, James joined a team with another superstar in residence, and another star came with him."</dd></dl></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/sports" title="sports">sports</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> The status of an athlete as a <a href="/wiki/free_agent" title="free agent">free agent</a>. <ul><li><b>2018</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.football365.com/news/free-agents-xi-out-of-contract-stars-yet-to-sign-a-deal">Free agents XI: Out-of-contract stars yet to sign a deal</a> <i>Football365</i>, 27 June 2018. Accessed 5 August 2018. <dl><dd>"These players, in a 3-5-2 formation, are days away from <b>free agency</b> with no club yet acquired as pre-season training approaches…"</dd></dl></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=free_agency&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/free_agent#English" title="free agent">free agent</a></span></li></ul> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.codfw.main‐f69cdc8f6‐pnlkl Cached time: 20241125004507 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [vary‐revision‐sha1] CPU time usage: 0.159 seconds Real time usage: 0.238 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 74/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 2503/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 2/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 5/100 Expensive parser function count: 3/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.134/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 8620597/104857600 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 227.036 1 -total 77.67% 176.345 1 Template:en-noun 18.71% 42.483 3 Template:lb 3.44% 7.810 1 Template:l --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiktionary:pcache:idhash:6831541-0!canonical and timestamp 20241125004507 and revision id 76438361. 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