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freeload
[ free-lohd, -lohd ]
/ ˈfriˈloʊd, -ˌloʊd /
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verb (used without object) Informal.
to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
verb (used with object)
to get by freeloading: He freeloaded several meals a week.
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OTHER WORDS FROM freeload
freeloader, nounWords nearby freeload
free labour, freelance, free list, free liver, free-living, freeload, freeloader, free love, free lunch, freely, free-machining
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How to use freeload in a sentence
The implication is that the benefit has allowed those who worked in restaurants before the pandemic and were thrown out of work to basically freeload on federal assistance even though businesses are reopening across the country.
Those $300 pandemic checks aren’t the only reason restaurant employees might not want to go back to work|Micheline Maynard|May 31, 2021|Washington PostHordes of relatives and political favor seekers were in mortal peril if they arrived to freeload after dark.
Washington Was Broke? Why Founding Fathers Were Strapped for Cash|Willard Sterne Randall|February 20, 2012|DAILY BEASTHe found himself breathing heavily, despite the freeload conditions.
Tight Squeeze|Dean Charles Ing
British Dictionary definitions for freeload
freeload
/ (ˈfriːˌləʊd) /
verb
(intr) slang to act as a freeloader; sponge
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