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freeload - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
intransitive verb To take advantage of the charity, generosity, or hospitality of others.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb To live off the generosity or hospitality of others
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb live off somebody's generosity
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Being covered by health insurance should actually reduce healthcare inflation because fewer people will 'freeload ' off the system by forcing their health expenses to be written off.
Health Insurance Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Being covered by health insurance should actually reduce healthcare inflation because fewer people will 'freeload ' off the system by forcing their health expenses to be written off.
Health Insurance Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
I wouldn't take this to the bank: Freedom's Phoenix also hints that Barack Obama may be involved in the Kennedy assassination cover up, and that MRI brain scans can detect a tendency to "freeload " that could then be corrected through medical intervention.
Archive 2009-09-01 Tenured Radical 2009
I wouldn't take this to the bank: Freedom's Phoenix also hints that Barack Obama may be involved in the Kennedy assassination cover up, and that MRI brain scans can detect a tendency to "freeload " that could then be corrected through medical intervention.
Professor Radical Goes To Washington To Preview The Apocalypse Tenured Radical 2009
For many Chinese firms, having Indonesians "freeload " as board members or senior management was a very unpalatable demand.
Far Outliers Joel 2010
I guess I will just have to 'freeload ' if I lose my job ... blablabla1 on Today, 1: 22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009
I guess I will just have to 'freeload ' if I lose my job ... blablabla .... this quote was from conservativepro "" You have a moral dilemna if you eliminate preexisting condition clauses.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009
I guess I will just have to 'freeload ' if I lose my job ... blablabla .... this quote was from conservativepro "" You have a moral dilemna if you eliminate preexisting condition clauses.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009
I guess I will just have to 'freeload ' if I lose my job ... blablabla1 on Today, 1: 22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger countered that the Constitution "does not create or protect the freedom to freeload ."
Supreme Court watchers: Roberts, Alito no sure bets against health-care mandate Robert Barnes 2011
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