free and clear
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“One that we think is strongly worth considering is spinning out Venmo from PayPal. Venmo with its own budget, free and clear of the bureaucracy at PayPal — to us, that would be interesting.”
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“One that we think is strongly worth considering is spinning out Venmo from PayPal. Venmo with its own budget, free and clear of the bureaucracy at PayPal — to us, that would be interesting.”
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Anyone who has watched “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” could understand what Addison meant: She is choosing to be free and clear, to have every choice in front of her, to actualize without apology.
From Salon
I own my home free and clear and have no other debt at all.
From MarketWatch
A significant chunk of homeowners don’t even have a mortgage: About 40% of homes in the U.S. are owned free and clear, according to analysis of Census Bureau data by Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo.
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