to freeload
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7.5
- verb
- /ˈfriːloʊd/
- Informal
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- Yeah, maybe you'd better go home and stop freeloading up here.
- Never freeload
- still freeloading
Examples
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Do lots of other countries freeload off the US?
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He's a shyster that's been freeloading in this house for a solid year!
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The bottom 40% owe their ability to freeload on the 1%.
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He's just here to freeload, be around the girls.
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Well, Dad's here on business and we just decided to freeload along.
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I didn't come here to freeload a meal.
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But the US is too busy feeling entitled and freeloading to work.
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There are no jobs because we freeloaded for so long that we flushed them down the toilet.
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Critics deride the protests as yet another example of a freeloading mentality that helped lead the country into its financial mess.
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It's frustrating to see him always freeload at parties without ever bringing food or drinks.
Synonyms
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7.5
To take advantage of someone by always using their help or money without giving anything back
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8.6
To get food, money, or help from someone without paying
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7.9
To take money, food, or help from someone without giving anything back
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7.5
To get something free by asking someone
To ask for or take something without paying, for example food
Antonyms
How Exploitative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Freeload joins free ('without cost') and load ('a burden'), so it gives the image of taking things for free while putting a load on someone else. That's why to freeload is to get food, a place to stay, or other help from someone else without giving anything in return.