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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Origin of freeload

1950–55, Americanism; back formation from freeloader (free + load + -er¹)

OTHER WORDS FROM freeload

freeloader, noun

How to use freeload in a sentence

If an inspector gets on, he blocks the doors of the bus and anyone freeloading is fined.
‘Stupid Enough to Pay’: Tim Parks’s Italian Rail Adventures|Tim Parks|June 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The last man standing is also the only major U.S. automaker to choose free markets over freeloading.
3 Things Ford Can Teach the Rest of Detroit|John Avlon|June 3, 2009|DAILY BEAST
They can do it because they can, but there's nothing cool about it for a single mom already freeloading on disability.
Mother of All Disasters|Tina Brown|February 12, 2009|DAILY BEAST
I plan on spending the pre-Christmas season freeloading off French friends, eating their foie gras, and drinking their champagne.
Only the French Would Be Smug About the Recession|Janine di Giovanni|December 11, 2008|DAILY BEAST

Let's say you don't think of scrounging off food stores or working out a way of freeloading or hitting soup lines.
The Old Die Rich|Horace Leonard Gold

British Dictionary definitions for freeload

freeload

/ (ˈfriːˌləʊd) /

verb

(intr) slang to act as a freeloader; sponge

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