Kenneth Bernard ‘Ken’ Guthrie, former Deputy Managing Editor of the Orlando Sentinel, died of natural causes. Ken was 94. Born in Jasper, Alabama in 1931, Ken graduated from Carbon Hill ...
1 ' Free ' absolutely means 'free from any sorts constraints or controls. The context determines its different denotations, if any, as in 'free press', 'fee speech', 'free stuff' etc.
Free entrance X chargeable entrance. Free parking X paid parking. Free service X chargeable service. Free consultation X paid consultation. Free health care X expensive health care. Free toilet X pay toilet. Free fare (in the sense of a free ticket to travel, the opposite can be a paid ticket). Here there is a mentioning of paying a ticket fare.
single word requests - The opposite of "free" in phrases - English ...
Free ride dates back to 1880, while free loader is a more recent construction “freeloader (n.) also free-loader, by 1939, from free (adj.) + agent noun from load (v.)As a verb, freeload is attested by 1967 and probably is a back-formation from this”
A friend claims that the phrase for free is incorrect. Should we only say at no cost instead?
grammaticality - Is the phrase "for free" correct? - English Language ...
For example, imagine some food company decides to make their fruits permanently free. Online, you can "order" them (for free), but in person, what do you do? What would be the professiona...
What is the opposite of free as in "free of charge" (when we speak about prices)? We can add not for negation, but I am looking for a single word.