free zone

noun

: an area within which goods may be received and stored without payment of duty

Examples of free zone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As noted in an MIT Sloan article, Dubai’s free zones underpin its economic progress, enabling both multinationals and smaller firms to thrive. —Henri Al Helaly, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025

Mid-20th century, metafiction was all about producing a sort of free zone of uncertainty in the reader about whether they themselves might be caught within a story or the product of some author, or being manipulated by some storyteller at a higher ontological plane, a different plane of being. —Emma Alpern, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025

Entrepreneurs should select a free zone based on their business needs to capitalize on these specialized environments. —Wayne Liang, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025

The more exclusive invites — Madonna and Guy Oseary’s The Party or Beyoncé and Jay Z’s Gold Party, for instance — are press free zones. —Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for free zone

• alone
• atone
• backbone
• bemoan
• bluestone
• breastbone
• brownstone
• capstone
• cheekbone
• condone
• curbstone
• cyclone