costlessly
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5.1
- adverb
- /ˈkɔstləsli/
:
gratuitamente
- You can access a wealth of information costlessly through the internet.
Examples
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Granted, with modern action movies often costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, yet copiable almost instantaneously and able to be both copied and distributed almost costlessly, the need for copyright protection is comparable to that in the pharmaceutical industry.
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It is quite different from a perfectly competitive market where knowledge is costlessly available or, in more sophisticated versions, where knowledge will be obtained if the benefits exceed the costs of searching for it.
Academic text (2000) -
If such knowledge can be costlessly transferred within the MNE, internal debt may be an option.
Academic text (2018) -
Let me quickly insist that I am not in those camps that argue that the problem is much less severe than we think, or that China can costlessly grow its way out of the debt as easily in the future as it has in the past.
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Why is Mike back to a costlessly changeable promise to target nominal GDP?
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The option is either you can just choose without not knowing which scenario you're in or you can choose costlessly to find out whether you're in choice one versus choice B.
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There is an assumption among lawyers, judges, and policymakers, I think, that all this happens costlessly, as if by magic; that no matter how detailed the legislation, or how many exceptions it contains, it becomes law just as easily as the simplest command.
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If gas could be costlessly stored, for example, speculators would have an incentive to undertake storage until prices in the summer and winter differed only by an amount sufficient to cover the appropriate cost of the capital tied up in gas inventory between summer and winter.
Academic text (1991) -
Second best might be to mobilize a consortium of solvent SOEs that would buy bad debt (probably everyone knows what is bad) and move it costlessly off the banks' balance sheet, in order to make a private contribution to the banks' equity replenishment feasible.
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Many online courses allow students to learn costlessly from anywhere in the world.
Synonyms
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1.0
Without paying any money
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1.2
You do not have to pay for it
How Expensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Costlessly breaks into cost (a 'price' or 'expense'), plus -less meaning 'without' and -ly which makes it an adverb. So, to do something costlessly is to do it 'without cost', or 'for free'.