Abstract
Almost free groups were introduced in [9] as groups all of whose “small” subgroups are free. Here “small” means generated by fewer elements than the cardinality of the group. This concept is a generalization of locally free. Suppose κ is a cardinal > ω. A group is κ-free if every subgroup generated by fewer than κ elements is free. A group of cardinality κ which is κ-free is almost free. There are two related concepts which are closer approximations to freeness.

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