Free-world
noun, (often initial capital letters)
1.
the nations of the world that function chiefly under democratic and capitalistic systems rather than under totalitarianism or Communism.
noun
1.
the Free World, the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
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