rent-free
- adjective
- /rɛnt-fri/
- And he's living at the flat rent free with his wife.
- rent-free apartment
- rent-free house
- one rent-free month
And he's living at the flat rent free with his wife.
- And he's living at the flat rent free with his wife.
- As we got bigger, landlords started giving us rent free, which then me, we, we can open up another store for less cash.
Examples
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While the city allowed the club to use this space rent-free, it did not provide them with any financial help.
Academic text (2006) -
Hey, now, didn't my real estate company give you that corner lot rent-free for your church baseball team, huh?
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I am living rent free.
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I let you stay in my house rent-free for all that time.
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We get it rent-free with a chance to own it if things go well.
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And we can live in this apartment practically rent-free for as long as we want.
Fiction book (2000) -
You'll live in the house rent-free.
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One professor offered rooms in his nearby house rent-free to any students or scholars who might now be unable to travel home for spring break or during the summer.
Academic text (2017) -
"The appointment carries with it further benefits," the letter informed me, "most notably rent-free living quarters in an attractive house designed and built for the Eastman Professor."
Academic text (1999) -
He is fortunate to be living in a nice apartment rent-free while he looks for a job.
Synonyms
Without paying any money
Free for customers from a restaurant or bar
You do not have to pay for it
Antonyms
How Costly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rent-free comes from the parts rent and free, where rent is the payment for a house and free means 'without'. So rent-free means living or using a place 'without paying rent'.