rent-free
Americanadverb
adjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rent-free
Example Sentences
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I can’t remember which season where you read your reviews and throw the iPad overboard, but it lives in my mind rent-free.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
The U.S. already maintains a large military-base in northern Greenland rent-free.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
Even if he does legally own one third of this property, that does not mean he has an automatic — or even unlimited — right to live there rent-free.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025
The fair also allowed employees to live rent-free on the fairgrounds.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Curtis worked as a superintendent in an apartment house in Manhattan and he and Minnie were well-off compared to most black folks who came up from the South, because they lived rent-free.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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