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post-free

post-free

4.6
Sent with postage paid by the sender so the receiver does not pay
  • adjective
  • UK
translation icon : franqueado
  • They sent the invitation post-free, so we didn't have to pay anything to receive it.

Examples

  • The company offered a post-free service to encourage more customers to order from their website.

  • This book arrived post-free, which was a pleasant surprise for the recipients.

  • If someone has a more plausible theory to explain the post-free bounce, I would love to hear it.

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  • That would certainly be a radical shift and would make the post-free spikes we have been seeing a magnitude bigger again.

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  • There's one wild card here: it's not just Amazon that's playing a part in authors having astounding post-free success.

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Synonyms

post-paid
vspost-free
1 3.2

The sender pays the postage before delivery

is the same meaning but expressed with a different word form
postpaid
vspost-free
3.7

Sent with the postage paid by the sender so the person who gets it does not pay

is specific to postage paid by sender rather than general services

How Much

postage
19 2.4
post-free
  • UK
4.6

Surface Forms

post-free positive

Morphology

post-free = post + free (transparent) = post + free

Meaning is directly derived from 'post' (mail) + 'free' (without charge): 'free of postage'.

Etymology

The word post-free joins post- meaning 'mail' and free meaning 'no cost'. So it describes something sent with the postage paid by the sender, and the person who receives it does not have to pay.